Railway maintenance is defined as the process of preserving a working condition of a railway equipment, along the track or related to rolling stocks, but there are actually different approach to mantain a railway asset or service..
With CBTC, moving blocks introduce to the concept of contiguous track, because the railway is represented as a single contiguous block, rather than a set of adjacent blocks. This means that the safe separation behind the preceding train is dynamically calculated based on the maximum operating speeds, braking curves and locations of the trains on the alignment. Also, in this way the capacity of the railway is extremely increased.
In railway signalling, capacity can be defined as the maximum number of trains that can pass a given location during a given time period at a specified level of reliability.
Strict safety requirements regulate the development of railway signalling and train control systems, covered by the CENELEC (European Committee for Electro-technical Standardization) EN 5012x rail standards
This paper will drive you across the different phases of the V-cycle for railway application, by explaining the key role of requirements during each phase and presenting the Systems Engineering activities required to support and control product development.
Track circuits contributes for train detection but also for the vehicle’s speed control, since the electrical signals used for train detection can be exchanged between wayside and on-board for the transmission of speed commands.
Since the train can be considered the transport mode of the future, national railway companies and European Union are currently working for a continuos upgrade of sustainable rail transportation, in order to guarantee the best quality of life to European citizens.
Railway signalling can be defined as all systems used to control railway traffic safely, essentially to prevent trains from colliding. Over the years knoledgment and technology able to satisfy this issue have been implemented. ERTMS/ETCS is currently the most common signalling system adopted in Europe.
Among thousands mobile application available on our smartphones, the ones related to transportation's are in the first positions regarding number of users. Following this trend, the US railway company AMTRAK acts an online marketing strategy, just focusing on the mobile devices.
An axle counter acts as a counting head, detecting all the axles of rolling stock travelling on a track and also their direction of travel, using two electronic wheel sensor systems.
Bombardier to provide the London Crossrail Service, which will connect Maidenhead and Heathrow Airport in the west, to Abbey Wood and Shenfield in the east and is expected to open in 2018.
Italferr had submitted the lowest bid on the rail contract. It will be responsible for design of the complete infrastructure and systems covering 1,061km
Railway is a very useful source of travelling, but have you ever wondered which are the most equipped countries in the world related to railway network?
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the passion for your work and a contemporary approach to it, as regards an online presence, a self-marketing strategy and an orientation to knowledge sharing, one of the basis of internet, can guarantee you improvements related to your own knowledge and your business.
The future is going towards railway optical technology, trhough fibre sensing tools for rail track operation. The German railway infrastructure provider DB Netz, and...
The railway signalling market is going to live a very excting year, due to strong technology improvements and expansion of the European systems worldwide.
The Japanese conglomerate Hitachi Rail Europe Ltd. has recently announced that its on-board ETCS solution has received a certification from a notified body of the European Union.