Project
ALARP - A railway automatic track warning system based on distributed personal mobile terminals
Funding origin:
European
STRIA Roadmaps:
Smart mobility and services (SMO)
Transport mode:
Rail
Transport sectors:
Passenger transport
Freight transport
Project website:
CORDIS link:
https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/234088
Duration:
Start date: 01/01/2010,
End date: 30/04/2013
Status: Finished
Funding details:
Total cost:
€3 941 877
EU Contribution:
€2 626 610
Overview
Background & policy context:
An innovative efficient Automatic Track Warning System to improve the safety of railway track-side workers.
Objectives:
The objective of ALARP was to study, design and develop an innovative and more efficient Automatic Track Warning System ("ATWS") to improve the safety of railway track-side workers. ALARP will:
- selectively inform the track-side workers about: (i) approaching trains on the track, (ii) maintenance events on power lines and/or safety equipment on the concerned tracks that may put worker's safety at risk (e.g. being hit by a train or by receiving an electrical shock), (iii) emergencies on the tracks and in nearby tunnels (e.g. tunnel fires, toxic smoke) and (iv)escape routes in case of emergencies.
- keep track of the operating conditions of devices and the localisation of workers (especially those at risk and those who do not respond).
Methodology:
The ALARP project has been based on the following main components:
- the track-side Train Presence Alert Device ("TPAD"): this device is able to sense an approaching train on the interested track without interfering with the signalling system;
- a set of distributed, low-cost, wearable, context-aware, robust, highly reliable, wireless mobile terminals ("MTs") to inform workers about possible approaching trains and/or other events that could put their safety at risk.
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