Business profile
Simulate Validate Control software solutions for railway signalling and operations
Tim Gray discusses how the uses of TRE’s software solutions have developed to enable railway professionals to enhance safety, improve performance and reduce project risk
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RE, a Hitachi Group company, has a proud history of success working with the railway industry both within the UK and
overseas. Until recently the simulation tools (TREsim) developed by TRE were used for training and competence management. However the product range has developed and expanded to provide railway companies powerful new uses of these technologies to offer far greater value at every stage of the project.
Simulate
TRE’s full-fidelity simulators provide one- to-one representation of live operating systems and have been used for many years by Network Rail for training and regularly assessing signallers in operating complex electronic signalling centres throughout the UK. More than 140 full fidelity simulations of signaller workstations for control areas have been supplied including those fitted in
the regional operating control centres (ROC’s) that are key to Network Rail’s signalling strategy. These installations incorporate accurate models of the interlocking, the exact workstation screen layout and controls, driver/signaller communications, current timetable, track topology and train performance characteristics.
The simulators are an integral part of the training curriculum for signallers as they practice the routine tasks in controlling trains and crucially, emergency and perturbation scenarios in a safe, off-line and totally realistic environment. During training the trainer/ assessor has the ability to adapt the session from a normal situation to one involving a failed train, faulty points, signals and track circuits, SPAD, adverse weather conditions etc. This allows signallers, in a safe off-line environment, to train for disruptions and emergency situations enabling the development of
optimum responses.
In the UK TREsim tools and simulators are typically installed as part of area re-signalling schemes. TRE works closely with OEM suppliers such as GE, Invensys and DeltaRail to install the simulators well in advance of the commissioning period to allow for signaller training on the new scheme. As part of such schemes the simulation tools are being used for the pre-testing of new timetables prior to going live to ensure that the required service levels can be achieved.
The power and flexibility of TREsim simulators has been recognised in international markets too, with systems now active in Sweden, Norway, Germany, Italy and Japan. The Norwegian application is particularly novel, whereby three workstation simulators are integrated with six driving cab simulators (from Sydac) providing a virtual railway system training suite at the Norwegian
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