Interlocking System Design for ERTMS / ETCS: An Approach with Batches Petri Nets

Abstract

In order to optimize and to standardize the train traffic across Europe, railway people developed new standards known as European Rail Traffic Management System (ERTMS) that has three levels from conventional rails (level 1) to high speed rails (level 3). The use of this standard is not limited only in Europe and became a widely used standard in Asia and America. In this study, movement of two consecutive trains as moving-blocks on a single railway line is modeled using a hybrid modeling technique known as Batches Petri Nets.