Building Telecommunication Facilities for Railway

Abstract

Train has become a favoritetransportation in Indonesia, especially, in the near end of Ramadan. Thousands of people leaving fortheir home villages to meet and see their families and relatives. Therefore, a good and reliable railway communication system has to be considered as one of vital facilities in transportation business. This paper discussed about building telecommunication facilities for rail way communication system using Synchronous Digital Hierarchy ring network. Some services with different platforms such as data communicationand voice communicationwere made for signaling train operation and train dispatching among drivers personals, way stations and train control center office.Forpassengers'comfort ability, Ethernet services such as Wi-Fi, passenger display information, public address were also madeeither in a railway station or train in motion. All those services mentioned were provided by SDH add-drop multiplexer equipment which support multi service provisioning platform and TETRA radio network. Conclusion could be drawn that the railway communication system was completely build and tested successfully in small scale test bed.