REGISTER

Simeon Cox

IEng MIRSE

Siemens Mobility Pty Ltd

The backbone of large cities is their mass transit, supporting the needs of the population and providing a dependable pathway between nerve sites. Over the next 30 years, several Australian capital cities will be approaching ‘Mega City’ levels of population and will need to consider high-capacity metro systems to move their population as they ‘re-open’ following the COVID 19 pandemic. Access to efficient public transport provides greater equity in access to employment and educational opportunities across the population of the city as people return to the office, workplace, and classroom. Since 2006, Siemens Trainguard MT CBTC has been at the centre of high-capacity metro railways operating at GoA2 and GoA4 in cities worldwide.

Capable of application to both greenfield sites, as well as complex brownfield projects, this paper shall describe the features of the Trainguard MT system, its typical architecture and detail how that functionality may be applied with relation to solving problems such as:

• Mixed train fleet operation with differing length and performance as well as fitment with CBTC.
• Overlay onto existing lines, allowing ‘over-and-back’ for testing and even parallel operation with existing signalling.
• ATS regulation strategies to maximise capacity and minimise energy use.
• Integration with other railway systems.