Principles of Safety Signalling and Traffic Control Systems Synthesis on Railways

Abstract

The paper authors analyze the safety control systems synthesis problem for critical technological processes on the railway signalling and automation systems. It is shown that modern control systems for complex distributed systems, such as a railway transport system, are not implemented with absolute safety. Such systems safety is limited by considering only their own failures, control systems and their components external failures, as well as infrastructure objects failures that directly interact with control devices. Other infrastructure facilities are not considered in any way during automatic control and data transfer to on-board automation. We presents the theoretical principles for the safety train traffic control system synthesis, considering the capabilities of equipping infrastructure facilities with highly reliable and safe means of technical diagnostics and monitoring. A simplified structure of the central train traffic control complex is given, considering the diagnosing and monitoring results of all transportation process components. The conditions for the completely safety train traffic control systems synthesis are formulated. The tasks going with the safe control system synthesis problem are noted. The railway infrastructure facilities and rolling stock parameters comprehensive accounting will allow reaching a qualitatively higher level of train traffic safety.