On the application of an automated train traffic control complex under high traffic intensity

Abstract

In railway transport, the transition to high-tech means of organizing and performing work in the main areas of activity using digital technologies is systematically carried out, which is generally denoted by the concept of «digital transformation». In the light of the functioning of the innovation management system at the regional level, it is necessary to note the creation in 2021 of a network of regional centers for innovative development of railways in the status of Russian Railways branches, whose tasks are to support and develop innovative activities throughout the Russian railway transport. Acting towards the automation of operational work in 2014 on the existing double-track line of the North-Caucasian railway a hardware-software complex for automated train traffic control was built and applied. The aforementioned complex is one of the components of an intelligent control system in railway transport  ensuring an increase in the efficiency of operational work, in particular, train traffic control by a train dispatcher. The article discusses the prospects for the use of modern intellectual developments both on single-track and double-track sections under the conditions of increased traffic intensity, which is often accompanied by the occurrence of non-standard situations, whose examples are shown in relation to the construction of train routes on a real single-track section. As a promising test site for the introduction of an automated complex, a single-track section with diesel traction Ulan-Ude–Naushki of an East-Siberian railway is considered, where the least technically equipped section, limited by Medvedchikovo and Sulfat stations, including 7 hauls total length of 95 km, was proposed as a starting point for the modernization of the landfill.