Classifications

• • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
  • B61—RAILWAYS
  • B61L—GUIDING RAILWAY TRAFFIC; ENSURING THE SAFETY OF RAILWAY TRAFFIC
  • B61L15/00—Indicators provided on the vehicle or train for signalling purposes
  • B61L15/0063—Multiple on-board control systems, e.g. "2 out of 3"-systems
• • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
  • B61—RAILWAYS
  • B61L—GUIDING RAILWAY TRAFFIC; ENSURING THE SAFETY OF RAILWAY TRAFFIC
  • B61L15/00—Indicators provided on the vehicle or train for signalling purposes
  • B61L15/0018—Communication with or on the vehicle or train
  • B61L15/0027—Radio-based, e.g. using GSM-R
• • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
  • B61—RAILWAYS
  • B61L—GUIDING RAILWAY TRAFFIC; ENSURING THE SAFETY OF RAILWAY TRAFFIC
  • B61L23/00—Control, warning or like safety means along the route or between vehicles or trains
  • B61L23/34—Control, warning or like safety means along the route or between vehicles or trains for indicating the distance between vehicles or trains by the transmission of signals therebetween

Definitions

• Rail vehicle with an ETCS on-board unit rail vehicle association with at least two rail vehicles, each with an ETCS on-board unit, and method for controlling such a rail vehicle assembly
• the European Train Control System is a component of a single European Rail Traffic Management System, which will replace the large number of train protection systems deployed in European countries in the longer term. In terms of existing national security systems, this system is designed to be compatible with current national security systems.
• NTC National Train Control
• SL Sleeping Mode
• the guided vehicle is not manned by a driver in this mode.
• ETCS no-power mode
• NP no-power mode
• NL non-leading mode
• the object of the invention is to propose a rail vehicle with an ETCS (European Train Control System) on-board unit with which a rail vehicle equipped in this way can be operated in a new (supplementary) mode (own NTC level) of the ETCS.
• the invention is based on a rail vehicle with an ETCS (European Train Control System) on-board unit, which is provided with an interface for control data of track facilities national security systems, and provides according to the invention that the ETCS on-board unit is associated with an additional device , which is connected on the input side to an antenna and on the output side via its own interface for control data of link facilities of national train protection systems to the interface for control data of link facilities of national security systems of the ETCS on-board unit, which is suitable for an additional connection Rail vehicle signals to another rail vehicle signaling information received via the antenna to behave like a national train control system under the assumption of control data of the ETCS on-board unit; the ETCS on-board unit is arranged downstream of a further additional device with a further antenna, wherein the further additional device is
• German patent application DE 198 22 803 AI to equip a rail vehicle so that it can determine the distance to a preceding rail vehicle.
• a significant advantage of the rail vehicle according to the invention is that with him without the involvement of a line center only by assigning an additional device to the ETCS on-board unit of the rail vehicle and by providing a further option for delivering a signal for virtual coupling on this rail vehicle, the requirement is at least two Rail vehicles in Let bandage drive. The following vehicle is then only logically connected to the leading vehicle.
• a further advantage is that the one and the further additional equipment can be easily connected to the respective ETCS shelves because they are adapted to the ETCS on-board unit.
• the further additional device is suitable for generating and transmitting railway vehicle control information with the signal for virtual coupling. This ensures that the rail vehicle is also suitable for providing control information to a following rail vehicle, as required for safe traffic in a rail vehicle association.
• the further additional device is suitable for generating, as supplementary rail vehicle control information, distance information relating to a conductive rail vehicle and correlating with the rail vehicle control information from the conductive rail vehicle. Due to the distance information, it is additionally ensured that in the case of a rail vehicle association, there is in no case a critical distance between the rail vehicles.
• the invention further relates to a rail vehicle association with at least two rail vehicles in a configuration as described above.
• a rail vehicle transmits the conductive rail vehicle by its further auxiliary device transmitting the signal for virtual coupling and the rail vehicle control information to the additional device of another guided rail vehicle, and the one additional device out of the other Rail vehicle is activated by the ETCS on-board unit of the other guided rail vehicle.
• German Patent Application DE-OS 10 2001 075 218 discloses a method for operating track-bound vehicles in which the driving information relating to at least one of the vehicles is transmitted between a first vehicle and a second vehicle and the two vehicles are driving coordinate with each other on the basis of the transmitted driving information, but here the tuning in driving takes place with regard to an optimization of energy consumption by the braking energy fed back from the first vehicle during braking is at least partially used by the second vehicle.
• the rail vehicle assembly according to the invention is advantageous, in particular, insofar as it can be operated alone with one ETCS on-board unit alone, without the intervention of a line center, by means of rail vehicles equipped with said additional devices.
• the one additional device is a combined ATO (Automatic Train Operation) / ATC (Automatic Train Control) device and the further accessory device is an ATO (Automatic Train Operation) device.
• ATO Automatic Train Operation
• Such devices are exemplary in the Internet publications
• htt // en. wikipedia. org / wiki / Automatic Train Operation and htt: // en. wikipedia. org / wiki / GW ATP.
• a further object of the invention is to propose a method for controlling a rail vehicle association, which can be implemented with comparatively few additional equipment on board the ETCS on-board units of rail vehicles.
• a rail vehicle is used as the conductive rail vehicle, by sending from its further auxiliary device the signal for virtual coupling and the rail vehicle control information to the one additional device of another guided rail vehicle and the one additional device of the further guided rail vehicle guided by the ETCS on-board unit further
• the further guided rail vehicle can advantageously be operated by the new mode (own NTC level) according to the invention.
• the method according to the invention offers the advantageous possibility of operating two or more rail vehicles in a bandage only by rail vehicles equipped with additional equipment without a line center.
• rail vehicles can be coupled with ETCS on-board unit, which can not be coupled either physically or electrically.
• the method according to the invention comes as the one additional device, a combined ATO (Automatic Train Operation) / ATC (Automatic Train Control) - device and as the further option an ATO (Automatic Train Operation) - device in question.
• the illustrated rail vehicle association 1 consists of a conductive rail vehicle 2 and a further, guided rail vehicle. 3
• Each rail vehicle 2 and 3 of the rail vehicle association 1 is equipped with an ETCS on-board unit 4 or 5 respectively.
• Both ETCS onboard units 4 and 5 are provided with an interface 6 and 7, respectively, for control data of route units, not shown, of national train control systems.
• each rail vehicle 2 or 3 is provided with an additional device 8 or 9, which are equipped with an antenna 10 and 11, respectively.
• Each additional device 8 or 9 is provided with an interface 12 or 13, which is designed for control data of line facilities of national train protection systems; It is therefore possible to directly connect the interfaces 6 and 12 and 7 to 13 with each other.
• Each of the additional devices 8 or 9 is designed such that it can behave like a national train protection system with the assumption of control data of the respective ETCS on-board unit 4 or 5, if it - in this example the ETCS on-board unit 9 - is a virtual system.
• coupling of the respective rail vehicle - here the guided rail vehicle 3 - to the conductive rail vehicle - in the example, the rail vehicle 2 - signaling information via its antenna 11 receives.
• a bi-directional radio link 14 is provided, which is described below in its structure:
• Each ETCS on-board unit 4 or 5 is followed by a further additional device 15 or 16, which are each equipped with an antenna 17 and 18 respectively.
• Each of the further ancillary devices 15 and 16 is designed so that it sends a signal to the virtual Coupling a rail vehicle via their respective antenna 17 and 18 can send out.
• rail vehicle control information which is generated by the respective further auxiliary device 15 or 16, is advantageously emitted with the signal for virtual coupling.
• Another radio link between the antenna 18 and the antenna 10 is not shown because it is activated only when the rail vehicle 3, the conductive rail vehicle and the rail vehicle 2 is the guided rail vehicle 2.
• the rail vehicle 3 is the conducting vehicle and the rail vehicle 2 is the guided vehicle
• information about the virtual coupling is provided by the further auxiliary device 16 of the rail vehicle 3 via a radio connection (not shown) corresponding to the train connection 14 to which an auxiliary device 8 of the now guided rail vehicle 2 is transmitted, whereupon the rail vehicle 2 is then controlled, as has been explained above in connection with respect to the rail vehicle 3.
• a first mode the rail vehicles 2 and 3 of the rail vehicle body 1 move close to each other coupled as a virtually and logically coupled train band, each assigned a driving license. From the point of view of the ETCS this is as if the guided vehicle - in the above example the rail vehicle 3 - was in Sleeping or Non Leading mode and the two rail vehicles 2 and 3 would be physically coupled. The two rail vehicles 2 and 3 start and stop together and the coupling and decoupling can only take place at a standstill.
• the rail vehicle assembly 1 can be operated in a further mode in which the guided rail vehicle - in the example the rail vehicle 3 - can be uncoupled from the conductive rail vehicle 2 while the vehicle is running, if the guided rail vehicle 3 for example, to stop at a train station.
• the initiation of this process can be done either by the railway driver or by ATO information.
• the previously run rail vehicle 3 finally stops in the station and leaves the one NTC level, while the previously conductive rail vehicle 2 continues.
• the previously run rail vehicle then continues its journey independently controlled by a railway driver.
• a rail vehicle may become a guided rail vehicle by being fed without clearance to a (then conductive) rail vehicle.
• the rail vehicles are initially driven on the track side until information about the rail vehicles is transmitted in such a way that the rail vehicles can now drive logically or virtually coupled. If the following rail vehicle can safely approach the rail vehicle becoming the conductive rail vehicle, then the method according to the invention becomes effective and the guided rail vehicle is placed under the control of the conductive rail vehicle by means of its auxiliary device.
• the rail vehicle dressing thus formed behaves like a train together with a narrow distance between the rail vehicles.

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