Building Trust in Artificial Intelligence: A Necessity for Railway Applications

📅 2026-09-16
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为提高铁路应用中对AI的信任,本文从鲁棒性、操作设计域和可解释性三方面提出解决方案,以满足安全标准。
📝 Abstract
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is currently only applied to non-safety critical applications due to the strict standards and regulations for railway industries. We propose to review the three main fields necessary to increase trust in data science and AI algorithms and reach compliance: robustness, Operational Design Domain (ODD), and explainability. Robustness is the ability of an AI system to maintain its level of performance under any circumstances (ISO24029). ODDs allow the explicit definition of operating conditions under which a system is intended to operate, according to the recently published DIN DKE SPEC 99004. Explainability is the property of an AI system to express important factors influencing the AI system results in a way that humans can understand. Those 3 domains of research are already well investigated by nonrailway actors, with algorithms and methods ready to use for railway applications. A system view is necessary to ensure all trustworthy requirements interact continuously in a safe MLOps environment thereby fostering acceptance from regulators, operators and the public. Beyond safeguarding safety-critical applications, we aim to show that fostering deep trust in AI, as now required by regulatory frameworks worldwide, will unlock its full potential and transform the pace of adoption across mission-critical domains.
Problem

Research questions and friction points this paper is trying to address.

Artificial Intelligence
Railway Applications
Trust
Compliance
Safety-critical
Innovation

Methods, ideas, or system contributions that make the work stand out.

robustness
Operational Design Domain (ODD)
explainability
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Lefebvre Renard Clément
Alstom - Mobility Data Science and AI, Madrid, Spain
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Lébé Vincent
Alstom - Mobility Data Science and AI, Saint-Ouen, France
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Da Silva Ribeiro Pereira Ricardo
Alstom - Mobility Data Science and AI, Madrid, Spain
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Sundell Johan
Alstom - Safety Engineering, Stockholm, Sweden
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Jaoul Arnaud Saiah Kenza
Alstom - Mobility Data Science and AI, Saint-Ouen, France
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Mijatović Nenad
Alstom - Chief AI & Data Science Office, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania USA