Thursday, June 16, 2016

Railways, the ultra technological tower Rfi to handle traffic – Il Sole 24 Ore

A technological ultra national control tower for managing and controlling rail traffic.
is the new national operations room of Italian Railway Network (the Fs group company which is in charge of the railway infrastructure management) which monitors – moment by moment, 24 hours a day – the circulation of about 9 thousand trains / day on over 24 thousand kilometers of track, monitor the implementation of efficient national railway infrastructure (tracks, switches, signals, technological security systems, power train system, etc.) and coordinates the management of rail traffic on the occurrence of emergencies and relevant critical.

the great technological innovations of the RFI national new control room is the operations Control room system. Two touch screens allow, during abnormalities or failures, to drill all the information (outline plans for the station and lines, floor plans, bridges, viaducts, tunnels and existing historical data) useful to promptly coordinate the intervention in emergency technicians. In addition, the system allows geolocalize maintenance crews, rescue vehicles and closer in line trains stopped.

A real cabin directing that integrates the management and control of the railway traffic of about 16,700 kilometers of lines with predictive diagnostics activities (fixed and mobile, with a fleet of dedicated trains) ensuring safety, regularity and punctuality and more timely intervention in case of abnormality or failure.
the national operations room, in synergy and coordination with 14 local control rooms, as well as monitoring the development of rail traffic, manages all necessary and functional activities to ensure the continuity of rail traffic in If abnormalities, failures or external events that determine temporary stop. It is the user interface of the 33 railway undertakings, and authorizes and monitors all the amendments requested to the daily scheduled commercial offer.
Operators (35, distributed in three shifts throughout the day) are available for work technologies the latest generation: 56 monitors network with 200 meters of fiber optic cables and powered by 3000 meters of electrical cables.

How does the new control room

the national operations Centre, in the event of particular difficulties, it can also display the images transmitted from live cameras security installed at railway stations, daily controlled and supervised by the operations room of the enterprise security, and can be connected with the crisis unit room where the CEOs of the operating companies and the top management of the group Fs follow minute by minute the evolution of rail traffic to the occurrence of particularly significant critical and significant impact on the operation of the train.

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