LOCOTRAC

Low cost train automatic control

Locotrac project aims to develop low-cost technologies to secure regional and local railway lines including mechanisms of ATP (Automated Train Protection). The project will integrate these new technologies into onboard products, track products and telecoms specially adapted to these lines.

Expertises:

Engineering of complex IT systems ⊕

Domaine: Transport & logistics ⊕

Factsheet:

Project type: Competitiveness clusters
Status: Finished
Collaboration: Wallonia
Role: Partner
Started: 1 April 2011
Duration: 48 months
Program: Logistics in Wallonia
CETIC budget: 383255 €

Project team

Objectives

The project objectives are:

Better understanding of the specific market needs of European regional and
local railway lines (but also worldwide due to the standard ERTMS);
The search for new system concepts that aim to meet their needs with a low
cost LCC (Life Cycle Cost);
Integration of new technologies (security architecture, localization technique, new telecom technology,...) in the specification and development of new products;
Finding the highest level of compatibility with the ERTMS standard ensuring a level of interoperability between these lines and trunks;
To prepare adequately the development of new standards, prerequisite to actually open market (harmonization of specifications and developed by
European industrial solutions);
Demonstrate these new concepts through a mock-up of the new systems, subsystems and produce a full-scale experiment on the railway site;
To validate these new concepts by taking into account performance level, RAMS (Reliability, Availability, Maintainability, Safety) level and ERTMS interoperability level. The research undertaken by the CETIC in this project concerns software hardening. This technique makes possible to reach a high level of safety for software-executing security function.