SIGNAL+DRAHT | Issue 05/2021
Railway automation and its influence on track worker protection
The term “automation” includes a multitude of strategies and innovations that are currently being researched in the railway system. The influence of these technical and organisational concepts on the operating control and management system is wide-ranging. As a consequence, peripheral systems such as track worker protection have also been exposed to this. This question has been investigated within the context of a master’s thesis at the Technische Universität Dresden in order to find the extent to which automation influences track worker protection [1]...