ETC Plat­form: Add-On Func­tions

RailTab - The dig­i­tal as­sis­tant for train dri­vers

RailTab pro­vides train dri­vers with all trav­el-re­lat­ed in­for­ma­tion dig­i­tal­ly and up-to-date – timetable, slow zones, and the dig­i­tal com­mand in a clear, al­ways up­dat­ed view. Based on the EBu­La data of DB In­fra­GO, runnable on com­mer­cial tablets and de­vel­oped to­geth­er with our part­ner IN­AVET.

The Chal­lenge

How does op­er­a­tions re­main re­li­able when con­struc­tion sites and slow zones be­come the norm?

Con­struc­tion sites, slow zones, and short-term changes shape rail op­er­a­tions. The de­mands for punc­tu­al­i­ty and qual­i­ty re­main con­sis­tent­ly high. The ac­tu­al prob­lem is not the lack of in­for­ma­tion, but its frag­men­ta­tion: it comes from dif­fer­ent sources, is part­ly on pa­per and in sep­a­rate sys­tems, and can even con­tra­dict it­self in de­tail. This costs time, in­creas­es the bur­den in the dri­ver's cab, and the train­ing ef­fort for dri­ving per­son­nel.

The So­lu­tion

All trav­el-rel­e­vant in­for­ma­tion in one view

RailTab con­sol­i­dates the dig­i­tal timetable and slow zones into a uni­fied dis­play: timetable data in black, slow zones high­light­ed in red. The in­ter­face in­ten­tion­al­ly fol­lows fa­mil­iar struc­tures from the timetable and EBu­La and runs au­to­mat­i­cal­ly based on GNSS data. Changes in plan­ning and op­er­a­tions are prompt­ly avail­able through di­rect con­nec­tiv­i­ty—pa­per-based process­es are re­duced, and in­for­ma­tion re­cen­cy in­creas­es.

Func­tion­al­i­ty

How RailTab Works

RailTab con­nects three lev­els: The sources, timetable, slow zones, and oth­er data from DB In­fra­GO, which pro­vides this dig­i­tal­ly and process-se­cure­ly. The preparation by our part­ner IN­AVET, who ag­gre­gates and syn­chro­nizes the data based on kilo­me­ters. And the provision by ETC So­lu­tions as a con­sol­i­dat­ed view on the tablet, in real-time, with or with­out EBu­La on­board de­vice.

Re­li­a­bil­i­ty

What hap­pens if a con­nec­tion fails?

If a con­nec­tion fails or com­mu­ni­ca­tion breaks down, tiered, Ril-com­pli­ant fall­back lev­els ac­cord­ing to DB In­fra­GO guide­lines (in­clud­ing Ril 408, 420, and 497) are used. This en­sures that the dri­ver's cab is sup­plied with trav­el-rel­e­vant in­for­ma­tion even in the event of dis­rup­tions—dig­i­ti­za­tion and op­er­a­tional safe­ty go hand in hand.

Ex­ten­sions

Mod­u­lar ex­pand­abil­i­ty

RailTab is fun­da­men­tal­ly mod­u­lar. Be­yond the ba­sic func­tion, four ex­ten­sions can be in­di­vid­u­al­ly added, seam­less­ly in­te­grat­ed into the same view:

RailTab – The Dig­i­tal Dri­ver's Cab

Dig­i­tal Com­mand

Dig­i­tal com­mand mes­sages as an ad­di­tion­al view along­side the timetable, re­triev­able by train num­ber and ac­cess code.

AI Fore­cast in­clud­ing RI Fore­cast Ma­chine (RIPA)

Con­trol Cen­ter & In­fra­struc­ture Data

Per­son­nel, ve­hi­cle, and track changes, as well as con­nec­tion ap­provals from the Dat­Net con­trol cen­ter, di­rect­ly em­bed­ded in the timetable.

Au­to­mat­ic Pas­sen­ger Count­ing (APC)

Doc­u­ment Man­age­ment (KSV)

Doc­u­ment man­age­ment with doc­u­ment switch and rule man­ag­er KSV, in­clud­ing re­ceipt con­fir­ma­tion and ac­knowl­edg­ment.

Pas­sen­ger in­for­ma­tion via What­sApp

Dri­ver As­sis­tance / Train Run Con­trol

Dri­ver as­sis­tance sys­tem smart­trains.das (IN­AVET) and the green func­tions of the ZLR in the vari­ants DAS-C and DAS-O for an­tic­i­pa­to­ry, en­er­gy-op­ti­mized dri­ving.

A spe­cial ad­van­tage: rail map­ping and con­nec­tion and track change data are al­ready avail­able in Dat­Net and can be di­rect­ly em­bed­ded in the timetable with­out ad­di­tion­al in­te­gra­tion.

In­tro­duc­tion

How quick­ly can RailTab be in­tro­duced?

RailTab is a stand­alone prod­uct and does not re­quire ad­just­ments to the ex­ist­ing sys­tem land­scape. The so­lu­tion runs on com­mer­cial tablets (rec­om­mend­ed from 10 inch­es). The ba­sis is the EBu­La data from DB In­fra­GO.

Added Val­ue

Your Ben­e­fits

Mod­ules, stan­dards, and in­ter­faces that re­li­ably con­nect op­er­a­tions and plan­ning.

  • Modules

    Sched­ule man­age­ment, con­trol cen­ter, dis­patch­ing, re­port­ing, analy­sis, con­trol­ling

  • Planning system connections

    All known plan­ning sys­tems, e.g., MO­BILE.plan, EPON, FBS, IVU.plan, RailOpt, Goal

  • Supported interfaces in planning

    VDV 452, railML, Ne­TEx, GTFS, SIRI-PT

  • Real-time interfaces

    TAP TSI, UIC 407, SIRI ET/VM/CM/SX, VDV 453+454, VDV 736, etc.

  • Reporting & Analysis

    ETC Q.Daba, con­nec­tion to Qlik, Tableau, Pow­er BI, data ware­house ex­port, QUMA, IVU.con­trol etc.

  • Data delivery to purchasers

    HAFAS HRDF, VDV 452, DINO along with many oth­er stan­dard for­mats for task man­agers and con­trol­ling

  • Security

    ISO 27001 in im­ple­men­ta­tion, ISO 9001 cer­ti­fied

  • Support

    24/7 Helpdesk

Whitepa­per

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We would be hap­py to per­son­al­ly present the so­lu­tion to you and send you the whitepa­per upon re­quest.

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