SIGNAL+DRAHT | Issue 04/2020
Headways in ETCS Levels 2 and 3 on the main urban railway line in Vienna
The following article, which is based on a thesis written at the University of Applied Sciences in St. Pölten, presents the possible headways on the main urban railway line in Vienna under two different scenarios. In Scenario 1, the line is equipped with ETCS Level 2 (L2), which uses conventional block divisions with traditional signalling. Scenario 2 assumes that the line is equipped with ETCS Level 3 (L3). This level of ETCS uses a so called “Moving Block” with on-board checks of the train’s completeness....