scholarly journals Study of the possibility of using transmission in the lte system on a selected railway line for the purpose of running railway traffic

2021 ◽  
Vol 57 (1) ◽  
pp. 91-101
Author(s):  
Marcin Chrzan
Keyword(s):  
Control Systems ◽  
Traffic Control ◽  
Research Work ◽  
Rolling Stock ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Radio Communication ◽  
Railway Line ◽  
Railway Traffic ◽  
Railway Infrastructure ◽  
Rail Traffic

The railway and the Rail Traffic Control Systems installed on it in Poland have recently experienced rapid technologi-cal development. This is undoubtedly due to the funds that Poland receives from the European Union for the moderni-zation of railway infrastructure. The development of modern railway infrastructure means not only stations, modern rolling stock, but also safe and reliable train control systems based on the latest telecommunications and information technologies. For a longer time, radio communication based on the GSM-R (GSM for Railways) standard is being introduced on PKP. For this purpose, dedicated infrastructure is being built in order to use this technology for railway traffic. This is associated with huge investment costs. Since the beginning of its existence, research has been conducted worldwide on the use of LTE (Long Term Evolution) technology for conducting railway traffic. For economic and technological reasons, it is necessary to study other possibilities of using modern telecommunications infrastructure not yet dedicated to railway tasks in these open networks. The article will present research on the use of open radio communication network based on LTE standard for rail traffic and passenger comfort. It will discuss the research method and selected results of measurements made on railway line no. 4. The choice of this railway line was dictated by two factors. The first one resulted from the maximum train speed, the second one is the variety of rolling stock used on this line (compartmental and non-compartmental wagons). The part of research concerning collection of measurement material was performed within the framework of completed research work PBS3/A6/29/2015. As a result of conducted in-depth literature analysis as well as performed measurements and calculations, it allowed to develop a model and software for simulating system operation in real conditions. This system allows to send railway telegrams on appropriate safety level defined in standardization documents. The research proved the possibility of using an open system in the LTE standard for the transmission of signals for railway traffic control and passengers while maintaining an appropriate level of safety. The only limitations which were indicated by the tests are improper radio interface coverage of railway lines. Appropriate planning of radio coverage of railway areas by radio communi-cation operators (so far ignored) with proper cooperation of infrastructure manager can lead to launching efficient communication system without necessity to build specialized infrastructure for railway.

scholarly journals Design and Simulation of a Decentralized Railway Traffic Control System

2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 945-951 ◽  
Author(s):  
T. Kara ◽  
M. Cengiz Savas
Keyword(s):  
Control System ◽  
Control Systems ◽  
Traffic Control ◽  
Traffic Management ◽  
General Structure ◽  
Railway Transportation ◽  
Railway Line ◽  
Railway Traffic ◽  
Traffic Control System ◽  
Traffic Management System

With the increasing use of railway transportation, various methods have been developed for the control and management of train traffic. Train traffic control systems that are currently in use are overwhelmingly centralized systems. In this study, the development of the general structure of railway traffic control techniques is examined, centralized and decentralized control systems are investigated, and an alternative train traffic control system, the Decentralized Train Traffic Management System (DTMS), is suggested. Simulation results on the possible application of the proposed method to a railway line in South-East Turkey are employed to evaluate the performance of the developed system.

scholarly journals SRK systems - registration of operating data

2018 ◽  
Vol 19 (6) ◽  
pp. 761-763
Author(s):  
Bartłomiej Ulatowski ◽  
Zbigniew Łukasik
Keyword(s):  
Control Systems ◽  
Traffic Control ◽  
High Speed ◽  
Railway Transport ◽  
Operating Data ◽  
Railway Traffic ◽  
European Project ◽  
Operational Data ◽  
Rail Traffic

The following article deals with the topic of Rail Traffic Control systems, focusing on the aspects of registration and acquisition of operational data. In the first part of the text, the authors focused on describing what SRK systems are, and how they can be modernized in order to increase security. At the beginning of the study, the authors presented a railway transport called "High Speed railways". The KDP had a big influence on the development of SRK systems. In the further part of the article, the authors focused on the possibility of recording operating data of individual systems and presented the ETCS system, which is a European project aimed at standardizing systems for Railway Traffic Control.

scholarly journals Analysis of the possibility of implementing interoperability tests on Polish railways

2021 ◽  
Vol 60 (4) ◽  
pp. 71-86
Author(s):  
Przemysław Ilczuk ◽  
Agnieszka Zaczek ◽  
Magdalena Kycko
Keyword(s):  
Control Systems ◽  
Mobile Communications ◽  
Traffic Control ◽  
Traffic Management ◽  
Field Tests ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Commission Regulation ◽  
The Republic ◽  
Traffic Management System ◽  
Rail Traffic

Ensuring the greatest possible interoperability of rail transport, especially for railways in Europe, is one of the key projects to be implemented using the European Rail Traffic Management System (ERTMS), including the European Train Control System (ETCS) and the Global System for Mobile Communications-Railways (GSM-R). The ERTMS system aims to replace many different rail traffic control systems with one, common and unified European solution (Commission Regulation (EU) 2016/919, 2016), (Directive (EU) 2016/797, n.d.). Its creation was dictated by the desire to standardize the traffic control systems present in the territories of various European countries, at the same time extending their functionality and eliminating the existing technical barriers. The aim of this article is to present the possibility of implementation interoperability tests - IOP tests, on Polish railways. These tests are intended to provide a faster, more accurate and less costly demonstration of compliance with the ETCS interoperability requirements compared to field tests. The work defines the concept of interoperability tests as well as the purpose of their application. The general principles and procedures for conducting interoperability tests are presented. In the further part of the work, the operation of laboratories in the European Union is analysed. The laboratories functional in Switzerland and Spain were selected for this analysis. Following, the paper presents the validity of implementing interoperability tests on the territory of the Republic of Poland. On the basis of the pan-European procedure of conducting interoperability tests and the experience of foreign independent laboratories, conditions for the implementation of tests in the Polish railways were developed, which could be used in the future to introduce IOP tests in Poland.

Digital standard interfaces in railway traffic control systems

2020 ◽  
Vol 131 ◽  
pp. 17-29
Author(s):  
Paweł Wontorski ◽  
Magdalena Dzierżak
Keyword(s):  
Research And Development ◽  
Control Systems ◽  
Traffic Control ◽  
Essential Feature ◽  
Background Information ◽  
Coherent System ◽  
Railway Network ◽  
Railway Traffic ◽  
Functional Aspects ◽  
Railway Infrastructure

The article presents the issue of digital standard interfaces of railway traffic control systems. The digitization and standardization of interfaces are digital rail elements, an essential feature of integrating various devices, facilities, and processes in one coherent system. The authors described the problems of connecting computer systems, starting from the interface's definition, including technical and functional aspects. Examples of interface types selected problems resulting from connecting incompatible devices and attempts to solve them are presented. It then provides background information on the project to develop a digital interface standard for selected rail traffic control systems. The project described in this article, under the name of "Standardization of selected interfaces of railway traffic control equipment and systems" POIR.04.01.01-00-0005/17, has been created as part of the BRIK (Research and Development in Railway Infrastructure) program and has been cofinanced both by the NCBiR (The National Centre for Research and Development), as well as the PKP Polskie Linie Kolejowe S.A. (PKP PLK - Polish State Railways). The project's goal is to develop, through research, specifications, and requirements for interfaces used in railway traffic control systems, which will become a standard enabling linking of systems from different manufacturers. The project results will be dedicated to using on the railway network managed by PKP PLK (and potentially also by other infrastructure managers) and documentation containing descriptions of standards, guidelines for the application and design of these interfaces.

An application of TCP and UDP protocols in the connection of railway traffic control systems

2019 ◽  
Vol 126 ◽  
pp. 49-59
Author(s):  
Juliusz Karolak ◽  
Andrzej Kochan
Keyword(s):  
Control Systems ◽  
Traffic Control ◽  
Railway Traffic ◽  
Network Connections ◽  
Rail Traffic

The article presents the possible implementation of the interface between computer devices: TCP and UDP protocols of one of the layers of the TCP / IP model, along with their features. Responses to errors were distinguished. Then an example of cooperation between two actual rail traffic control systems and other examples was presented, supplementing them with the proposed classification of connections. Systems are also presented, inside which network connections using TCP and IP protocols are used. The influence of the indicated damages on the substantive work of the connection was also presented.

scholarly journals Integrated power supply system for station equipment of rail traffic control

2018 ◽  
Vol 180 ◽  
pp. 05004
Author(s):  
Ryszard Mielnik ◽  
Zofia Wróbel
Keyword(s):  
Power Supply ◽  
Traffic Control ◽  
Power Supply System ◽  
Formal Analysis ◽  
Discrete Event ◽  
Supply System ◽  
Analysis And Design ◽  
Railway Traffic ◽  
Formal Tool ◽  
Rail Traffic

Railway Traffic Control Systems (RTCS) provide a safe, reliable and efficient movement of rolling stock on railway networks. RTCSs are classified as critical process systems. The power supply system is required to provide a high level of power reliability so that a station equipment of an RTCS safely executes the rail traffic process. The article describes typical solutions of power supply of station equipment of RTCSs. Analysis of these solutions led to the development of assumptions and structures for the integrated power supply system of station equipment. Useful tools for the formal modeling of such systems can be Petri Nets. These nets are a graphical and formal tool for modeling, formal analysis, and design of discrete event systems. The basic element of the integrated power system which is described in the article is the Automatic Reserve Switching system (ARS system). The ARS controller Marked Petri Net (ARS controller MPN) that has been developed by the authors is presented here. The net was subject to reduction resulting in an ARS controller hierarchical simplified MPN. The article also presents the practical application of the ARS controller built using the hardware platform and graphical programming environment LabView National Instruments (NI).

scholarly journals Optimizing the train timetable with consideration of different kinds of headway time

2017 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 148-162 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pei Liu ◽  
Baoming Han
Keyword(s):  
High Speed ◽  
High Efficiency ◽  
Heavy Traffic ◽  
Capacity Utilization ◽  
Operational Environment ◽  
Train Timetabling ◽  
Railway Line ◽  
Railway Traffic ◽  
Train Timetable ◽  
Railway Infrastructure

The train timetable is a crucial document for organization of railway traffic. A high-quality train timetable is not only implementable in operational environment, but also efficient in terms of capacity utilization of railway infrastructure. In this paper, we try to solve the train timetabling problem of a double track high-speed railway line with heavy traffic and trains with different operational speeds are operated. In order to obtain a feasible timetable with high efficiency, different kinds of headway time are distinguished in the process of train timetabling. With a time expanded graph describing train movements, an integer linear programming is formulated. A branch and price algorithm is proposed to solve the model. The case study shows that more trains will be scheduled when different kinds of headway time considered.

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