2004 – March – McLean – Victorian Regional Fast Rail – A Control and Monitoring Perspective

Stuart McLean Bachelor Electronic Engineering, Hons (RMIT) ALSTOM Australia The Train Control and Monitoring System (TCMS) is the umbrella title given to the new Centralised Train Control (CTC) system and telemetry networks to be installed on the Regional Fast Rail (RFR) Project (Ballarat and Geelong corridors). This paper aims to provide an overview of the TCMS, detailing design decisions and equipment used and presenting a glimpse of the feature set offered by the new CTC system. It concludes by challenging engineers and managers to carefully consider the future specification design of control and monitoring systems.