SIGNAL+DRAHT | Issue 10/2021
SIL4 Data Center – a new platform architecture for safety-relevant railway applications
The European railway sector is about to take a technological leap into the digital future: The “Digitale Schiene Deutschland” sector initiative exploits this opportunity to implement next-generation technologies in rail operations. The foundation for this process will be laid by the fundamental modernization and digitalization of the infrastructure by consistently introducing the European Train Control System (ETCS) and digital interlocking systems as new control and safety technology. In addition, the initiative is working on a far-reaching digitalization of rail operations, encompassing, for example, an AI (Artificial Intelligence) -based traffic and incident management system, an ETCS Level 3 moving block approach, fully automatic train operation combined with high-precision real time train localization and the latest vehicle sensor technology for environmental and automated incidence perception ....