199206 – Davis & Crossley – Driver Assistance Video System

This paper describes the application of a Driver Assistance Video System to assist one man operation of trains in a suburban railway system.

The objective of a Driver Assistance Video System is to provide drivers with a clear and unobstructed view of the station platform area immediately adjacent to the stationary train. The view must cover the full length of the train and all passengers boarding and alighting the train. This may be accomplished by using suitably positioned video cameras to provide adequate visual coverage of the platform areas and by relaying the video information to the train drivers cabin
where a video monitor will display tlie platform/side-of-train image to the driver.

In addition to the normal bi-directional and uni-directional route working, the system must accommodate special conditions created by emergency and scheduled bi-directional working of normal nni-directional routes.