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.
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- © 2018 American Society of Civil Engineers.
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Corporate Authors:
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Authors:
- Immken, B
- Bardos, C
- Zamzow, B
- Bögl, S
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Conference:
- 16th International Conference on Automated People Movers and Automated Transit Systems
- Location: Tampa Florida, United States
- Date: 2018-4-29 to 2018-5-2
- Publication Date: 2018-4
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
Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: Automatic train control; Fail safe systems; People movers; Simulation; Software packages; Standards
- Subject Areas: Operations and Traffic Management; Railroads; Safety and Human Factors; Vehicles and Equipment;
Filing Info
- Accession Number: 01870755
- Record Type: Publication
- ISBN: 9780784481318
- Files: TRIS, ASCE
- Created Date: Jan 24 2023 9:28AM