VDV Recommendation No. 163 “Additional Requirements for Electric and Electronic Equipment for Urban Rail Vehicles”

VDV Recommendation No. 163 “Additional Requirements for Electric and Electronic Equipment for Urban Rail Vehicles” 
Edition 08/2024

VDV Recommendation 163 supplements VDV Recommendation 160 “Basic Requirements for Electric Equipment for Urban Rail Vehicles” concerning the individual components of the electric equipment. Focus is on proposals for the selection and design of this equipment as well as on information about the use of it.
It is intended to support VDV member companies operating urban rail vehicles, i. e. tramcars, light rail vehicles and metro vehicles, by the procurement of new vehicles and by the modernisation or retrofit of older vehicles. It is also intended to be a guideline for engineering consultants that support public transport companies by the preparation of technical specifications and companies that manufacture electric and electronic equipment or its components.
As many of the standards concerning electric and electronic equipment have been revised after the publication of the first edition of this VDV Recommendation in 2008 and as further standards dealing with this topic have been published after 2008, it became necessary to revise this VDV Recommendation. Moreover, valuable suggestions for improvement of this VDV Recommendation that were put forward by the public transport companies are now an integral part of it.
Requirements for components of advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) for tramcars and light rail vehicles are not the object of this VDV Recommendation as they are dealt with in detail in VDV Recommendation 191.
This VDV Recommendation supersedes VDV Recommendation 163 from 2008.