Over the recent years, an increase in the demand for passenger and freight rail transport services has been observed. This is mainly owingto the policy objectives related to the use eco-friendly means of transport and the investment causing the quality ofrail services to grow. Along with the growing demand for rail transport, a problem of railway capacity utilisation has emerged. Although the implementation of the new Automatic Train Protection (ATP) system increases the safety level, but under some scenarios, it may decrease the headways between trains. At the same time, the ATP systems enables train positioning based on odometry calculation and reporting it to the trackside system. This paper proposes a solution thatinvolves application of virtual blocksections which use the train position reporting feature of the ATP system for the determination of non-occupancy. Virtual blocks can successfully reduce headways in railway lines without increasing the number of trackside signalling devices. The capacity assessment proposed under the study was performed to calculate the average headway depending on the signalling system configuration.


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    Title :

    EFFECTOF TRAIN POSITION REPORTING ON RAILWAY LINE CAPACITY


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    Publication date :

    2021




    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    Unknown




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