European Rail Traffic Management Research Articles

Slow train to concord [railways

The UK railway companies have steered the development of a new signalling system on to a branch line in the hopes that it will prove more effective than an earlier more ambitious trial. The system move from train protection warning system (TPWS) to European rail traffic management system (ERTMS), which is intended to improve railway safety and reliability, increase interoperability and cut equipment and maintenance costs. ERTMS is meant to boost railway safety by improving the control of trains.

Automatic train control

The invention relates to a train control system based on ERTMS (European Rail Traffic Management System) and ETCS (European Train Control System) Level 2 with an RBC (Radio Block Center) (2), which is connected to a signal box (1) to guidance of vehicles on a specific track section by means of permanent GSM-R (Global system for Mobile Communication-Railways) -Funkverbindungen (3) between the RBC (2) and the vehicles. In order to lead a greater number of vehicles, it is provided that the RBC (2) a route information imaging server (5) and a plurality of vehicle information imaging clients (6