ASSIGN: Advisory System for SIGNallers for improved User Worked Crossing Resilience

ASSIGN：为信号员提供咨询系统，以提高用户工作的十字路口弹性

• 批准号: 971653
• 金额: $ 43.96万
• 依托单位: THALES GROUND TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS LIMITED
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Small Business Research Initiative
• 财政年份: 2019
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2019 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=971653
• 关键词: ASSIGN; Advisory; System; SIGNallers; improved

Thales and their partners are collaborating to develop the ASSIGN (Advisory System for SIGNallers) solution for improved User Worked Crossing (UWC) Resilience. John Halsall, South East route managing director at Network Rail has stated: “Level crossings remain the biggest source of risk on the rail network.” Currently around five people a year are killed at level crossings in Britain with hundreds of reported near misses. Of these, the 1700 UWC equipped with telephones contribute to 12.5% and 19% of pedestrian and vehicular related fatalities respectively [ORR2016-Strategy for regulation of health and safety risks - 4: Level crossings]. At these crossings, it is the responsibility of the signaller to determine if it is safe for the user to cross; with UWC in long block sections, the signallers often have to make this decision without knowing the current position of a train in relation to a UWC. The lack of exact train positioning often means that to the signaller has to deny permission to cross, and this increases risk taking behaviours by people faced with long waits. ASSIGN brings together novel robust positioning technology with existing rail cloud-based system to create a new first of a kind application to provide train time of arrival information at UWCs to signallers. This system aims to allow signallers to quickly validate the decisions that they make and thus giving greater resilience to the infrastructure they control. The ASSIGN system will be installed to monitor train movement along the Barnstaple Branch Line, which has over 25 UWCs in a 20-mile section and is specifically identified by the ORR as a key challenge to Network Rail that they must address to improve safety and operations. Signallers will be trialling and helping refine the ASSIGN user interface, and evidence from this trial will be used to inform ASSIGN roll-out across the UK.

泰雷兹及其合作伙伴正在合作开发ASSIGN（信号员咨询系统）解决方案，以提高用户工作道口（UWC）的弹性。约翰霍尔索尔，东南路线总经理在网络铁路已表示：“平交道口仍然是最大的风险来源的铁路网络。”目前，英国每年约有5人在平交道口丧生，据报道有数百人险些丧命。其中，配备电话的1700个UWC分别占行人和车辆相关死亡人数的12.5%和19%[ORR 2016-健康和安全风险监管战略- 4：平交道口]。在这些交叉口，信号员的责任是确定用户是否安全通过;由于UWC位于长闭塞区段，信号员通常不得不在不知道列车相对于UWC的当前位置的情况下做出此决定。缺乏准确的列车定位往往意味着信号员不得不拒绝允许穿越，这增加了人们面临长时间等待的风险行为。ASSIGN将新的强大定位技术与现有的铁路云系统结合在一起，创建了一个新的首个应用程序，为信号员提供UWC的列车到达时间信息。该系统旨在允许信号员快速验证他们做出的决策，从而为他们控制的基础设施提供更大的弹性。安装ASSIGN系统是为了监控沿着巴恩斯特普尔分支的列车运行，该支线在20英里的路段上有超过25个UWC，ORR特别将其确定为网络铁路的一个关键挑战，他们必须解决这个挑战，以提高安全性和运营。Signallers将进行试验并帮助完善ASSIGN用户界面，该试验的证据将用于通知ASSIGN在英国的推广。