Railway Operations and Control

Railway safety and signalling: railway signalling principles, block signalling, interlocking, automatic train protection, level crossings

Advanced train control systems: ETCS, CBTC, Virtual Coupling

Railway capacity: train dynamics, blocking time theory, capacity concepts, timetable compression method, conflict-free timetables

Migration to ERTMS

Railway automation: Automatic Train Operation, Grades of Automation, railway traffic control, metro control

Railway governance: railway organization and governance, policy, railway reforms, open access

Railway production chains: short-term, mid-term and long-term coordination issues.