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Alex Jansen
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Dutch Boosting Group<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

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Beyond Tools: A Socio-Technical Approach to Systems
\nEngineering in Business Context
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Bio.
\n<\/strong>Alex is een zeer ervaren consultant en manager in de infrastructuur met meer dan 30+ jaar ervaring. Hij vervult diverse rollen, vari\u00ebrend van Systems Engineering manager (2GW programma van TenneT) tot projectleider Groot onderhoud Papendrechtsebrug (Rijkswaterstaat) en Technisch manager (project Guisweg). Het toepassen van de principes van SE is een rode draad door alle projecten en rollen die hij oppakt. Als medeoprichter van Dutch Boosting Group wil hij laten zien dat een brede inzet van SE bij de maatschappelijke opgaven van deze tijd leidt tot de juiste oplossingen binnen aanvaarbare kosten. Kenmerkend voor zijn stijl van werken is zijn sensitiviteit voor processen en zijn hands-on mentaliteit. Hij doet dit met een grote mate van betrokkenheid en enthousiasme. Zijn specialisme is het samen brengen van (externe) partijen om te werken vanuit een gezamenlijk belang.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>

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Abstract.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Rationale
\nThe Guisweg level crossing in Zaandijk, where the road
\nmeets the Alkmaar\u2013Amsterdam railway and the N203
\nProvincialeweg, has been a bottleneck for years. Heavy
\ntrain traffic causes long waiting times, and cyclists
\nfrequently cross while the barriers are already closing.
\nThe layout for pedestrians and cyclists is unsafe and
\nunclear. A second driver is the national High-Frequency
\nRail Programme (PHS): the intended timetable between
\nAlkmaar and Amsterdam cannot be delivered while the level
\ncrossing remains. Third, the combined rail and N203
\ncorridor forms a physical barrier between the
\nneighbourhoods around the Zaan and western Zaanstad, with
\ntoo few good east\u2013west connections. Continued growth in
\nresidents and businesses makes intervention urgent.
\nThe project objective is to improve safety and
\naccessibility for pedestrians, cyclists and motor traffic
\nat and around the crossing, and thereby enable the PHS
\ntimetable. Sub-objectives address quality of the living
\nenvironment, barrier effect, social safety, and
\naccessibility of Zaandijk Zaanse Schans station.
\nSolution
\nThe chosen solution is a lowered (grade-separated) Guisweg
\nintersection. The level crossing is removed; the Guisweg is
\nsunk between the 1e Guiswegdwarsstraat and the Wezelstraat,
\nand the Provincialeweg between the station square and the
\nLindelaan, with a signal-controlled junction at the lowered
\nintersection. Decks carry the railway and the fast-cycle
\nroute over the lowered Guisweg West. Additional measures
\ninclude new grade-separated cycle and pedestrian links on
\nboth sides of the Provincialeweg, a two-way cycle track
\nwith footpath to the station, relocation of bus stops and
\nbike parking, a relocated Wezelstraat junction with access
\nfor the mosque, motor club and Club Koog, urban and
\nlandscape integration, water-management measures, and
\nutility relocations.
\nSystems engineering and organisation
\nA Top specification serves a the project’s baseline and
\ncontrol instrument. It translates problem definition and
\nobjectives into nine explicit functionalities of the
\n“Guisweg system” \u2014 conflict-free crossing, safe crossing,
\naccessibility, traffic flow, interface continuity with the
\nsurroundings, quality of the living environment, traffic
\nsafety, social safety, and station accessibility. They are
\nthe functional top requirements feeding the functional
\nanalysis, the system decomposition into subsystems and
\nobjects (object tree), and the function allocation matrix,
\nall recorded in the Functional Top Requirements
\nSpecification. Objects fulfil functions and thus define
\nscope, giving unbroken traceability from problem to design.
\nThis specification also verifies goal fulfilment explicitly.
\nThe work is carried out by Projectbureau Guisweg for the
\nAmsterdam Transport Region and its partners, organised
\nalong the IPM model: Project Management and Control,
\nEnvironment Management, Technical Management, and Contract
\nManagement.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Alex Jansen Dutch Boosting Group Beyond Tools: A Socio-Technical Approach to Systems Engineering in Business Context Bio. Alex is een zeer ervaren consultant en manager in de infrastructuur met meer dan 30+ jaar ervaring. Hij vervult diverse rollen, vari\u00ebrend van Systems Engineering manager (2GW programma van TenneT) tot projectleider Groot onderhoud Papendrechtsebrug (Rijkswaterstaat) en Technisch...","protected":false},"author":402,"featured_media":0,"parent":13872,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-15135","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/incose.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/15135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/incose.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/incose.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/incose.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/402"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/incose.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15135"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/incose.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/15135\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15147,"href":"https:\/\/incose.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/15135\/revisions\/15147"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/incose.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/incose.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}