Liu, J orcid.org/0000-0002-3808-5957, Ulianov, C, Hyde, P et al. (2 more authors) (2022) Novel approach for validation of innovative modules for railway traffic management systems in a virtual environment. Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers Part F: Journal of Rail and Rapid Transit, 236 (2). pp. 139-148. ISSN 0954-4097
Abstract
To increase operational efficiency, resilience and capacity of the railway system, the development of modern railway traffic management system (TMS) has attracted more and more attention in recent years. To support the development and implementation of the next generation of TMS and related applications, advanced data collection, transmission and processing approaches, digitalised databases, and virtual validation platforms, etc., are required. In the context of the TMS development (addressed by Technology Demonstrator 2.9 of Shift2Rail Innovation Programme 2), this support is to be provided by a scalable, interoperable and standardised communication platform for internal and external communication between different subsystems, applications and clients. This paper outlines the approach of the ongoing OPTIMA project aimed to develop a communication platform demonstrator for railway TMS based on a novel Integration Layer (IL) and its various interfaces to entities including integration layer services, TMS service, rail business service, external services and operator workstations. Further detailed discussion in this paper relates to the approach to validating the communication platform demonstrator as a functional entity, and as a virtual testing environment to validate railway traffic management and other applications. The validation approach for the applications tested on the communication platform demonstrator is also presented. The results of future implementation of this validation approach will be used to assess the functionality of the communications platform demonstrator developed, and the initial TMS applications tested on it, and form an important step towards developing and implementing IL based communications platforms for future TMSs.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © IMechE 2021. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) which permits any use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access pages |
Keywords: | Railway traffic management, communication platform, virtual testing, validation |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Environment (Leeds) > Institute for Transport Studies (Leeds) > ITS: Spatial Modelling and Dynamics (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 30 Mar 2022 11:34 |
Last Modified: | 30 Mar 2022 11:34 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | SAGE Publications |
Identification Number: | 10.1177/09544097211041879 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:185158 |