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.

Written exam (100%).

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