Towards A Versatile European Driver Advisory System

Pacing trains is an important part of railway operations management. It helps to improve the resilience of a timetable to perturbation and reduces significantly both the energy consumption and the wear-and-tear, while increasing the comfort for passengers. Today, only a few Driver Advisory Systems (DAS) with such abilities are already in operation on European major railways. This situation provides great opportunity to promote a unique but flexible system, which can be implemented and used around Europe. The paper describes a concept for a Versatile Driver Advisory System (VDAS). The on-board part of this system is not only fully compatible with a European Driver Advisory System (EDAS) coming from Traffic Management Systems (TMS) but also with other DAS (NEDAS). To ensure flexibility and versatility, EDAS can be implemented in different ways. The use of the standard railway radio GSM-R and the opportunity to send speed advices on the ETCSDMI are milestones on the development of ETML, the management layer of ERTMS. VDAS facilitates the improvement of the operational resilience to perturbation as well as sparing energy, offers synergy opportunities with the ETCS On-board system and, finally, VDAS is based on EDAS which may become a European standard.

• Summary URL:
  https://doi.org//10.2495/CR140301
• Summary URL:
  http://www.witpress.com/elibrary/wit-transactions-on-the-built-environment/135/27086
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  • Abstract reprinted with permission from WIT Press.
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• Authors:
  • Emery, D
• Conference:
  • 14th International Conference on Railway Engineering Design and Optimization (COMPRAIL 2014)
  • Location: Rome , Italy
  • Date: 2014-6-24 to 2014-6-26
• Publication Date: 2014

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Web
• Pagination: 10p
• Monograph Title: Computers in Railways XIV. Railway Engineering Design and Optimization
• Serial:
  • WIT Transactions on the Built Environment
  • Volume: 135
  • Publisher: Wessex Institute of Technology
  • ISSN: 1743-3509
  • Serial URL: http://library.witpress.com/pages/listBooks.asp?tID=2

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Advanced traffic management systems; Automated toll collection; Driver information systems; Energy consumption; Railroad traffic; Traffic flow; Train operations
• Geographic Terms: Europe
• Subject Areas: Operations and Traffic Management; Railroads; I73: Traffic Control;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01552638
• Record Type: Publication
• ISBN: 9781845647667
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Feb 2 2015 10:27AM