2024 – March – Zhu, Lauro & Nardi – Innovative Tablet Solution for Improving Rail Operation
Author(s): Dr Bin Zhu, Gianluigi Lauro & Federico Nardi
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1989 – Nov – Kennan – Presetroika Comes to Victorian Transport
Date Presented: December 28th, 2015
Hon Jim Kennan QC Mla
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1987 – July – Braund – Adelaide Signalling Project – Power Supply System
Date Presented: December 28th, 2015
A.S. Braund - JC- M.H.A. B.E. (Electronics), Grad I.E. Aust, Stud. IRSE The power system for the Adelaide Resignalling Project has been designed for high availability ensuring that the train system remains operational. To achieve this the system utilises slight break inverters feeding an independent distribution system. Inverters were selected in preference to diesel generators to reduce maintenance requirements and to provide an effectively break free supply.
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1990 – Apr – Hessel – Renewing The Stockholm Train Control Center
Date Presented: December 28th, 2015
Hakan Hessel and Dag Nordenfors
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1967 – Feb – Perry – Level Crossing Protection in NSW Railways
Date Presented: December 28th, 2015
EC Perry AMIRSE The State Government, recognising the increasing hazards to road users at level crossings diie to the day by day increase in the number of road vehicles, improvements to roads generally, and the consequent increased speed of vehicles, decided that in order to deal with the problem of improving conditions at level crossings in a practical manner and to ensure that any expenditure in connection with improvement was shared equitably with the various interests in the community, set up in February, 1960, a Special Level Crossing Fund for the purpose of financing initially the alteration, improvement or replacement of facilities at railway level crossings, or for the elimination of crossings where justified and an Inter-Departmental Level Crossing Committee comprising of representatives of the Department for Railways, Main Roads, Public Works, Local Government and the Treasury has been set up to recommend to the Minister for Transport, works which it is considered should be carried out,
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1967 – April – Summary of Level Crossing Protection Discussion
Date Presented: December 28th, 2015
Summary of Level Crossing Protection discussion held at the 19th Annual General Meeting of the Australian Section of the IRSE. Brisbane, April 1967.
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1982 – March – Sheldon – Communications Aspects of Metrol
Date Presented: December 28th, 2015
R Sheldon SMIREE Communication Section, VicRail The Melbourne Metropolitan Train Control Centre (METROL) has been established to co-ordinate all signalling and communications for the city loop and the suburban network. The author outlines the design philosophy for the communication system and describes the various sub--systems involved, including the post phone system and the train control telehone system. Emergency services and Maintenance facilities are discussed and the paper concludes by foreshadowing future developments.
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2013 – March – Forbes – Solar Power for Railway Signalling and Communications
Date Presented: December 28th, 2015
Michael Forbes B Tech (Elect) MIRSE MIE(Aust) Australian Rail Track Corporation This paper looks at how solar photovoltaic power systems work, design considerations for stand-alone DC systems, application as used by Australian Rail Track Corporation (ARTC) and other railways, including operation in conjunction with Wind generators, and remote monitoring.
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1976 – Nov – Perry – Sunshine – Rockbank Resignalling
Date Presented: December 28th, 2015
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1993 – April – Page – Safety Engineering WESTECT or What is this Voodo
Date Presented: December 28th, 2015
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1981 – July – Logan – Recruitment Training of Staff – NSW Notes
Date Presented: December 28th, 2015
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2024 – March – Sudholz – Passively Active – Warning systems for passive & occupation level crossings in agricultural settings
Author(s): Thomas Sudholz
Date presented:
This Paper investigates the issues regarding use of passive level crossings for livestock movements in the agricultural industry. This unavoidable practice presents a different risk profile to the typical user, with livestock movement being
2024 – March – Robinson – Barriers to innovation in signalling design, verification, and validation
Author(s): Neil Robinson
Date presented:
I started in signalling more than 30 years ago at British Rail, where I learnt how to design interlockings, initially in relay circuits, and then by programming Solid State Interlockings. This work sparked my interest in safety critical syste
2024 – March – Moore – Signalling Principles – What are they and where do they come from?
Author(s): Trevor Moore
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The term signalling principles is often referenced with regards to the design of a signalling system. It is also used as part of the title of a person ‘Principles Verifier’ or ‘Principles Tester’. Some rail managers also reference signalling p
2024 – March – Khan & Kamarulzaman – FRMCS – Integrated Migration Strategy
Author(s): Obaid Khan & Khairulzaman Kamarulzaman
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This paper offers a detailed FRMCS integrated migration strategy as a preparatory guide for current GSM-R users, particularly Rail Transport Operators (RTOs), as well as for projects in the planning and developmen
2024 – March – Alvarez – Case Study – FRMCS Migration Path in Perth
Author(s): Rodrigo Alvarez
Date presented:
The Public Transport Authority of Western Australia (PTA) is currently building a new mobile radio and backhaul transmission communications network across the Perth metropolitan electrified railway network.
2024 – August – Burns – Human Factors at Level Crossings
Author(s): Peter Burns
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Today’s railway fatalities are arguably more likely to occur at level crossings than in the train collisions we tend to focus most attention on controlling. Designing for level crossing safety can be messy and grey, especially when the dependen
2024 – August – Boss – Human aspects of managing cyber security in delivering ERTMS
Author(s): John Boss
Date presented:
The Netherlands is rolling out the European Rail Traffic Management System (ERTMS) across the national network. The government created a Programme Directorate to manage the rollout. Cyber security for both ERTMS as well as the transportation syst
2022 – November – Youle – Qualitative analysis – the more efficient approach to managing risks SFAIRP
Author(s): Patrick Youle
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To support the acceptance of safety risk for configuration changes to railways, systems engineering recognises both qualitative and quantitative hazard and risk assessment methods. Quantitative analysis can be perceived as objective and quali
2022 – November – Hunter – Cybersecurity in the Railway Industry
Author(s): Hugh Hunter
Date presented:
Cybersecurity is a hot topic worldwide with regular attacks being performed against multiple domains.