Travelling virtual balise for etcs Filip, A.
International journal of transport development and integration,
04/2017, Letnik:
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The railway industry has taken a great effort and is currently focused on exploitation of global navigation satellite system (GNSS) for the European train control system (ETCS). It has been assessed ...that replacement of track balises, used for safe train location determination, with virtual balises (VBs) detected by means of GNSS will significantly reduce the track-side infrastructure and operational costs. However, this innovated ETCS can be put into operations only in the case when detection of VBs by means of GNSS will achieve the same safety integrity level (SIL 4) and availability as it is required for physical balise groups (BGs). This paper describes a novel travelling virtual balise (TVB) concept, which was proposed to meet the demanding ETCS safety requirements for GNSS using the existing European Geostationary Navigation Overlay Service (EGNOS) safety-of-life (SoL) service. The TVB concept profits from the basic feature of GNSS – i.e. the ability of abundant train position determination in GNSS service volume, which cannot be realized by current track balise groups (BGs) with a spacing of hundreds of metres or more. The frequent GNSS train positions are utilized for (1) fast diagnostics of on-board location determination system (LDS), (2) introduction of reactive fail-safety into LDS and (3) derivation and justification of the ETCS safety requirements for EGNOS. The TVB concept brings one significant advantage to ETCS in contrast to the static VBs – i.e. the safety requirement for LDS doesn’t depend longer on the distance between successive VBs. It means that the existing spacing between physical BGs (up to 2.5 km) can be also preserved in case of TVBs. It can significantly improve the availability of LDS. Further it was found that a less demanding tolerable hazard rate (THR) requirement for GNSS of about 1e-7/1 h or more still enables to meet the ETCS THR requirement for VB determination, i.e. THRVB of 0.67e-9/1 h. Thus the ETCS TVB concept opens the door for efficient use of the EGNOS SoL service, originally developed for aviation.
During two last decades satellite navigation (GNSS) demonstrated its advantages besides aviation and maritime also in numerous non-safety applications in different land transport sectors. ...Nevertheless it is expected that "the golden age" of GNSS in land transport will come as lately as high-safety integrity and dependability of integrated solutions will be demonstrated and the use of GNSS in land safety-related systems will be standardized. In Europe a great effort in this area is currently focused on use of EGNSS, which includes two main systems - EGNOS, which belongs to the SBAS family, and Galileo. This paper deals with a new safety concept of the multi-constellation EGNOS-R interface which was originally proposed to meet the highest Safety Integrity Level (SIL 4) for the EGNOS Signal-In-Space, as it is required by the European Train Control System (ETCS). Fundamental benefits of EGNOS-R are summarised. A great potential of the EGNOS-R concept is further demonstrated using a new innovative method for excessive multipath error detection and identification, and also via protection of user against correlated excessive pseudorange errors. Since the EGNOS-R concept can be easily transferable to other non-European regions where similar regional multi-constellation augmentations from the SBAS family are or will be available, the international standardization of the EGNOS-R concept via a more general SBAS-R standard for SBAS exploitation in land safety-related systems is proposed. This new international SBAS standard can significantly support export of advanced EU technologies (e.g. ETCS) and thus justify the use of EGNSS on markets out of Europe.
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