LOCOPROL

Low cost satellite-based fail-safe train protection and control

LOCOPROL project intends to develop an innovative, cost-effective, satellite-based, vital, fail-safe train location system as the core of a train protection, control and command system. The proposed innovation will achieve a significant reduction of costs, in particular for short-term applications for low density traffic railway lines. The approach is drastically different from recently emerged train-aided satellite location systems because additional Kalman filters are no longer required.

Objectives

• Define a new multi-technology location system based on satellite positioning combined with fail-safe on-board track mapping and interlocking
• Investigate and prove its short term applicability in low-density traffic lines
• Study its application to ERTMS/ETCS
• Operate test sites for system validation under live operation conditions
• Study and prove its applicability to trackside workers' protection

Demonstration Sites:
France (RFF/SNCF) and (CFTA-Connex), Belgium (NMBS/SNCB)

Duration and Funding
August 2001 - (extended until) January 2005, funding through the EC Directorate General Information Society through the EC 5th Framework IST Programme

Consortium
Alstom Belgium Transport (coordinator), Alstom STI, BPV, CFTA-Connex, ERTICO, Honeywell, INRETS, NMBS/SNCB, Northern Jaitong University, RFF/SNCF, SEPTENTRIO, TRASYS

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