Towards Autonomously Driving Trains on Tracks With Open Access
Compared to automobiles on roads, trains have less degrees of freedom as they are bound to railroads. Thus, it should be more straight-forward to let them drive autonomously compared to automobiles. Several autonomous trains and subways already exist; however they operate on closed tracks. Typical examples are airport trains, also known as people movers. This paper sketches the conceptual, technical and legal challenges towards autonomously driving trains on existing railroads that are freely accessible and thus require reliable obstacle recognition. The authors try to generalize the experiences made so far in several large-scale research projects that aim at automating small, secondary railways. The authors summarize the results of a prototypical autonomous train system that we called autoBAHN.
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Supplemental Notes:
- Abstract reprinted with permission from Intelligent Transportation Society of America.
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Corporate Authors:
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Authors:
- Gebauer, Oliver
- Pree, Wolfgang
- Hanis, Gerhard
- Stadlmann, Burkhard
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Conference:
- 19th ITS World Congress
- Location: Vienna , Austria
- Date: 2012-10-22 to 2012-10-26
- Publication Date: 2012
Language
- English
Media Info
- Media Type: Digital/other
- Features: CD-ROM; Figures; Maps; Photos; References;
- Pagination: 10p
- Monograph Title: 19th ITS World Congress, Vienna, Austria, 22 to 26 October 2012
Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: Automatic train control; Degrees of freedom; Obstructions (Navigation); People movers; Railroad tracks; Railroad traffic control; Simulation
- Subject Areas: Operations and Traffic Management; Railroads; I73: Traffic Control;
Filing Info
- Accession Number: 01496502
- Record Type: Publication
- Files: TRIS
- Created Date: Oct 24 2013 3:38PM