A COTS High Availability and High Perfomance Train Control System for a Fully Automated Maglev People Mover

With the availability of rail-certified industrial fail-safe computer systems, offering of train control systems is no longer restricted to a few large market players. By using commercial of the shelf (COTS) components, our group was able to set up a high availability scalable train control system for a fully automated people mover system within a very short time frame. It fulfills highest safety requirements according to European railway standards EN50129 and EN5018 and allows train headways of less than 80 s. During the design, the V-model was consistently applied. Starting with a comprehensive risk and system assessment, a concept with detailed requirements catalogue was designed. Based on this concept a scalable hardware and software architecture was created using industry standard, railway approved safety controls. Implementation and testing of this architecture took place on a test track under real operation conditions as well as on a simulation system that allowed more than 30 virtual vehicles simultaneously on a track including more than 100 switches. In 2018, the design phase will be concluded with a complete verification and validation of the design and subsequent type approval by the federal German railway authority (Eisenbahn-Bundesamt). The paper describes the challenges our team faced and overcame when developing a novel turnkey people mover system including a train control system to be offered as an integrated one-stop solution to customers.

Language

  • English

Media Info

  • Media Type: Web
  • Features: References;
  • Pagination: pp 169-175
  • Monograph Title: Automated People Movers and Automated Transit Systems 2018: Moving to the Future, Building on the Past

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Filing Info

  • Accession Number: 01870755
  • Record Type: Publication
  • ISBN: 9780784481318
  • Files: TRIS, ASCE
  • Created Date: Jan 24 2023 9:28AM