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Authors:
Hawar Said
Mo Mansouri
Keywords: Systems Thinking, Battery Train, CATOWE, Openness of system, Leverage points, Systemigram, Zero Emission, Systems Engineering
Abstract:
This paper seeks to understand the Zero Emission solution that the Norwegian Railways Directorate adopted in its 2019 report. The report presented the battery with partial electrification as an ideal solution for achieving the government's goals of reaching Zero Emission. Using the battery as a replacement for diesel engines is a new technology in Norway. The newly proposed technology for use in the railway sector is a new challenge and raises many questions about its suitability to operate on the Norwegian railway. In this paper, we applied the concept of Systems Thinking methodology. We applied this methodology to get deeper understanding of the system and its boundaries. Understanding the issues could be of influence now or in the future, as well as identifying and defining the stakeholders and understanding their needs. The tools we used in this paper are: applying Cynefin framework to sort the set of issues that managers face in five contexts, applying Openness (context diagram) to manage the chaos and complexity by understanding the context of its environment, applying CATOWE analysis to understand the stakeholder perspective and the impact of the issues, applying WHY question to understand why the actors do what they do, applying Systemigram to understand and model the system of interest and also to visualize the representation of the system structure, & applying Leverage points to identify places in the system that a small force change can cause a large effect in system behavior.
Pages: 64 to 69
Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2021
Publication date: April 18, 2021
Published in: conference
ISSN: 2308-4243
ISBN: 978-1-61208-838-9
Location: Porto, Portugal
Dates: from April 18, 2021 to April 22, 2021