Cen­tral plat­form for Tram­Train net­works - AVG Karl­sruhe

The Karl­sruhe mod­el cen­tral­ly man­aged

The Alb­tal-Verkehrs-Gesellschaft (AVG) cen­tral­ly man­ages the Karl­sruhe mod­el, with dis­patch­ing, fore­cast­ing, and pas­sen­ger in­for­ma­tion in one sys­tem across rail, tram, and bus. A cen­tral plat­form unites the en­tire dual-sys­tem op­er­a­tion for 210 ve­hi­cles and en­sures con­sis­tent op­er­a­tional man­age­ment across all modes of trans­port.

At a glance

About AVG

  • 210 ve­hi­cles

  • New Stadler Tram­Train plat­form ve­hi­cles for both net­works

  • Hy­brid net­work: Full rail­way + light rail/tram in ur­ban op­er­a­tion

The chal­lenge

How do you man­age a hy­brid net­work with dif­fer­ent reg­u­la­tions on a sin­gle plat­form?

The 'Karl­sruhe Mod­el' is a pi­o­neer­ing project: Light rail ve­hi­cles op­er­ate on rail­way lines and vice ver­sa, a so-called dual-sys­tem op­er­a­tion. This mod­el brings im­mense op­er­a­tional com­plex­i­ty:

  • Ve­hi­cles switch be­tween rail­way and tram in­fra­struc­ture

  • Dif­fer­ent le­gal reg­u­la­tions (EBO vs. BOStrab) ap­ply de­pend­ing on the track sec­tion

  • Var­i­ous con­trol sys­tems and sig­nal box tech­nolo­gies must be op­er­at­ed si­mul­ta­ne­ous­ly

  • Frag­ment­ed stand­alone so­lu­tions led to me­dia dis­con­ti­nu­ities, man­u­al in­put, and er­ror-prone process­es

  • The grow­ing op­er­a­tion re­quired a so­lu­tion that can cen­tral­ly man­age mul­ti­ple op­er­a­tors and modes of trans­port

The so­lu­tion

One sys­tem for op­er­a­tions and pas­sen­ger in­for­ma­tion

With an in­te­grat­ed plat­form, the so­lu­tion unites sched­ul­ing, fore­cast­ing, and pas­sen­ger in­for­ma­tion on a com­mon data ba­sis. This makes dual-sys­tem op­er­a­tions across rail, tram, and bus con­trol­lable in real time, with­out stand­alone so­lu­tions and with con­sis­tent in­for­ma­tion across all chan­nels.

  • New cen­tral con­trol cen­ter with real-time fleet mon­i­tor­ing

  • New pas­sen­ger in­for­ma­tion sys­tem across all chan­nels

  • In­ter­face land­scape for the hy­brid net­work: con­nec­tion to sig­nal box­es, ve­hi­cles, and PIS

  • Con­nec­tion of new Stadler Tram­Train plat­form ve­hi­cles for Karl­sruhe and Salzburg

  • In­te­gra­tion of ex­ist­ing screen and au­dio hard­ware

  • Mul­ti­modal op­er­a­tion: rail­way, tram, and bus on one plat­form

  • ITC­S­neo: Real-time sched­ul­ing and fore­cast­ing with­out stand­alone so­lu­tions

Rel­e­vant fea­tures of the ETC Plat­form

For rail­way com­pa­nies

Op­er­a­tions, con­trol, and plan­ning sys­tem

Cen­tral sched­ul­ing and real-time mon­i­tor­ing of the en­tire fleet.

Dis­cov­er func­tion

For metro, tram, and bus op­er­a­tors

Pas­sen­ger in­for­ma­tion

Real-time in­for­ma­tion across all chan­nels from a sin­gle source.

Dis­cov­er func­tion

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