Our research topics on railway transportation transportation

Centralized Traffic Control

Concept for the centralized traffic control of the railway network of Hungarian State Railways

• organization structure,
• traffic and technical rules, operation

Technical background

• automatic route setting
• connection to information systems
• automatic trackside train monitoring
• signaling aspects
• safety and reliability

References:

Structural proposal for the network of Hungarian State Railways, MÁV.

• Research on the technical, operational and economic issues of centralized traffic control. R&D project. Principal: MÁV Zrt. (2011-2012)

On-board Equipment for Railway Rolling Stock

• Development of on-board equipment for locomotives
• Safety assessment of on-board systems

References:

• Safety assessment of radio remote control interface unit for a diesel shunting locomotive, M47-1331, Principal: MÁV-TRAKCIÓ (2010)
• SAFEDMI. Safe Driver Machine Interface (DMI) for ERTMS automatic train control. EU 6th FP. Partners: BME Department of Measurement and Information Systems, Ansaldo Signal. Aalborg University, AZD Praha. (2007-2008)
• Specification of integration of service timetable in on-board equipment. (2008)

Development of Safety-Critical Systems

• Consultancy in development of safety-critical systems
• Expertise, analysis, testing
• Independent safety assessment

References:

• Independent safety assessment of railway safety data transmission system, ProSigma, developed by Prolan Zrt. (2011)
• Concept for automatic checking of relay units of railway signaling systems. R&D project. Principal: MÁV Zrt. (2008, 2010)
• Safety analysis of a safety relay, type H-466-1370, produced by Hengstler (2008)
• Safety certification framework for guided transport systems. R&D project. Partners: BME Department of Measurement and Information Systems, Department of Control and Information Systems University of Žilina, SZIE Department of Automation, Prolan Zrt., Műszerautomatika Zrt. (2005-2006)

Hazard and Risk Analysis

• Hazard and Risk Analysis in Railway Transportation
• Risk-based safety target specification

References:

• Safety and risk analysis and safety target specification (SIL-allocation) for remote control systems in railway signaling (2005, 2013, 2014)
• Hazard and risk analysis for operation and control system AKF from Alcatel and Prolan (2005)

Railway Control Systems and Components

• Concept of railway control systems
• Requirement specification of railway control systems and components
• Specification of interlocking functions
• Customer requirement specification
• Analysis of technical and safety specifications

References:

• Electronic dispatching of locomotive drivers (2008)
• Automatic trackside train monitoring systems (2008)
• Point machine registration and diagnostics (2010)

Urban railway

• Hazard and risk analysis
• Safety functions
• Acceptance, approval and certification processes

References:

• MODUrban - Modular Urban Guided Rail Systems. EU VI. FP project. More than 30 European partners (2005-2008)
• MODSafe. Modular Urban Transport Safety and Security Analysis. EU FP7 project. WP7 (Acceptance, Approval and Certification) leader. (2008-2012)

Energetics of Electric Traction

• Analysis of overhead catenary network
• Single-vehicle optimization
  • analysis of driving characteristics
  • driver aid algorithms
  • optimization for speed limits and gradients
  • model validation with simulation and real data
  • implementation options in on-board systems.
• Analysis of traffic aspects
  
  • simulation with OpenTrack
  • energy consumption vs. travelling time optimization
  • simulated results with real vehicle and track parameters