REGISTER

Andrew Kitto BEng Elect (Uni of SA)

Australian Rail Track Corporation (ARTC)

Australian Rail Track Corporation is the owner and manager of the interstate rail track on behalf of the Commonwealth Government. Responsibilities include managing and developing the asset, and providingopen access to rail operators, for the purpose of facilitating the development of the rail industry.

This paper describes ARTC's project to implement a new generation safeworking system that utilises modern technology to control trains, and other users, over its network. Performance based specifications for a Communications Based Safeworking System (CBSS) were developed a couple of years ago. ARTC conducted a Registration of Interest process from which a small number of Consortia were invited to tender. Tenders were received in July 1992.

At time of writing, ARTC has analysed tenders for the CBSS project, and is about to make recommendations to the ARTC Board.

Consequently, the project can only be described in functional and conceptual terms at this stage. The details of design are either yet to be developed or are subject to the confidentiality associated with the current stage of the tender process.

This paper will describe in functional and conceptual terms the CBSS system.