TRAINCOM - Integrated Communication System for Intelligent Train Applications
Overview
Background & policy context:
The TrainCom project aimed at defining a standard Communication Infrastructure, which is able to seamless connect train equipment and ground facilities, so as to support a wide range of applications.
Objectives:
TrainCom aims at achieving the following general objectives:
- open and integrate the railway equipment market
- favour the interoperability at train, vehicle and equipment level
- reduce the life cycle cost of railway vehicles
- improve services for citizens
- allow new value added services
- make railways more competitive (increase of market share)
- enhance attractiveness of the public transport
- improve comfort of passengers
- prepare the next generation of railway vehicles
- integrate existing and new technologies
- allow train fleet management based on remote diagnostics and maintenance
Methodology:
TrainCom work was organised on the basis of a well established phase sequence:
- assessment of user requirements
- specification
- development
- verification
- demonstration
- exploitation
Each phase had an important role and embedded quality assessment activities. In accord with project objectives, special emphasis was given to the demonstration phase, that is the phase when it is easiest to "touch" the results and understand their benefits. To better organise the project and to assure proper technical co-ordination during project life, the time-oriented phase structure is combined with a vertical, objective-oriented structure, which consists of a number of activity fields. The overall organisation, which was successfully applied to a previous project (ROSIN), was well suited to such a complex and articulated project and allowed to assure homogeneous and continuous progress of the identified activity fields, under the responsibility of an activity field leader, from the starting phase up to conclusion of the anticipated activities. Due to technical and organisational reasons, the project is divided into 5 fields of activity:
1- Standardisation and Conformance
2- Train-ground Communication Infrastructure (based on ROGATE: Railway Open GATEway)
3- On-board Dynamic Passenger Information System (DPIS)
4- Remote Monitoring and Maintenance (ROMAIN)
5- Locomotives Interoperability.
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