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 the op­er­a­tion re­main re­li­able when con­struc­tion sites and slow zones be­come the norm?

Con­struc­tion sites, slow zones, and short-term changes shape the op­er­a­tion in re­gion­al rail trans­port – the de­mands for punc­tu­al­i­ty and qual­i­ty re­main con­sis­tent­ly high. The real prob­lem is not the lack of in­for­ma­tion but their frag­men­ta­tion: they come from dif­fer­ent sources, are some­times on pa­per and in sep­a­rate sys­tems and can even con­tra­dict each oth­er in de­tail. This costs time, in­creas­es the work­load in the cock­pit, and the train­ing ef­fort for the dri­ving per­son­nel.

The so­lu­tion

All trav­el-rel­e­vant in­for­ma­tion in one view

RailTab com­bines the dig­i­tal train itin­er­ary and slow zones into a uni­fied de­pic­tion: timetable data in black, slow zones high­light­ed in red. The in­ter­face con­scious­ly fol­lows the fa­mil­iar struc­tures from the train itin­er­ary and EBu­La and runs au­to­mat­i­cal­ly based on GPS data. Changes from plan­ning and op­er­a­tion are avail­able prompt­ly through di­rect con­nec­tion – pa­per-based process­es are re­duced, and the cur­ren­cy of in­for­ma­tion in­creas­es.

Func­tion­al­i­ty

How RailTab works

RailTab con­nects three lev­els: The sources – timetable, slow zones, and ad­di­tion­al data from DB In­fra­GO, which will first be made dig­i­tal­ly avail­able and process-se­cure from the sched­ule change in 2027. The pro­cess­ing by our part­ner IN­AVET, which merges 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 the EBu­La on-board de­vice.

Re­li­a­bil­i­ty

What hap­pens if an in­ter­face fails?

If an in­ter­face fails or com­mu­ni­ca­tion is in­ter­rupt­ed, tiered fall­back lev­els com­pli­ant with Ril guide­lines ac­cord­ing to the guide­lines of DB In­fra­GO (in­clud­ing Ril 408, 420, and 497) come into play. This way, the sup­ply of the cock­pit with trav­el-rel­e­vant in­for­ma­tion is en­sured even in case of dis­rup­tions – dig­i­tal­iza­tion and op­er­a­tional safe­ty go hand in hand.

Ex­ten­sions

Mod­u­lar­ly ex­pand­able

Be­yond the ba­sic func­tion, four ex­ten­sions can be added in­di­vid­u­al­ly, seam­less­ly in­te­grat­ed into the same view:

RailTab – The Dig­i­tal Dri­ver's Cab

Dig­i­tal com­mand

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

AI Fore­cast in­clud­ing RI Fore­cast Ma­chine (RIPA)

Con­trol cen­ter & in­fra­struc­ture data

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

Au­to­mat­ic Pas­sen­ger Count­ing (APC)

Doc­u­ment man­age­ment (KSV)

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

Pas­sen­ger in­for­ma­tion via What­sApp

Green func­tion / train run­ning reg­u­la­tion

ZLR in the ver­sions DAS-C and DAS-O for pre­dic­tive, en­er­gy-op­ti­mized dri­ving; op­tion­al­ly as a sep­a­rate dri­ver as­sis­tance sys­tem.

A par­tic­u­lar ad­van­tage: Track map­ping as well as con­nec­tion and track change data are al­ready avail­able in Dat­Net and can be dis­played im­me­di­ate­ly in the timetable with­out ad­di­tion­al in­te­gra­tion.

In­tro­duc­tion

How quick­ly can RailTab be in­tro­duced?

RailTab runs on com­mer­cial tablets (rec­om­mend­ed from 10 inch­es), can be used with or with­out the EBu­La on­board de­vice, and does not re­quire ad­di­tion­al hard­ware. The ba­sis is the dig­i­tal timetable and track data of DB In­fra­GO from the sched­ule change in 2027.

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

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