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Requirements Engineering in Complex Infrastructure: Challenges to the Development and Management of Rail Transport Requirements
This paper investigates information requirements development practices in Australian civil
infrastructure projects characterised by the use of models, methods and tools to support a
strategic approach to asset information lifecycle management. The research study focuses on
rail transport infrastructure where the complexity of rail networks as a cyber-physical systemof-
systems makes it increasingly difficult for current Requirements Engineering (RE) practices
to handle the myriad of requirement types across temporary project supply chains.
Consequently, the RE effort needs to continuously consider multiple disciplinary perspectives
of the process throughout the asset life cycle. Using both literature and interview surveys,
process-oriented challenges to RE are investigated. Findings identify a lack of implementationready
requirements development and management methods supported by interoperable toolchains
that provide integration and automation in requirements traceability and change
management workflows. The paper closes with a discussion on the correlation of our findings
with previous studies and the direction of future research