Automatic Railway Signaling Generation for Railways Systems Described on Railway Markup Language (railML)

Article

Authorship

Menéndez, Martín Nicolás ; GERMINO, SANTIAGO ; Diaz Charris, Luis David ; LUTENBERG, ARIEL

Date

2023

Publishing House and Editing Place

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.

Magazine

IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, vol. 25 (pp. 2331-2341) Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.

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Automatic railway signalling generation from a railway layout helps reduce human errors while considerably speeding up the process of signalling placement. In that regard, we designed an automated process that we named Railway Network Analyzer (RNA). This article will present that process, stating what an RNA implementation must observe to generate signalling from a railway layout stored in railML, a European open-standard used for railway infrastructure data exchange. The RNA analyses the layo... Automatic railway signalling generation from a railway layout helps reduce human errors while considerably speeding up the process of signalling placement. In that regard, we designed an automated process that we named Railway Network Analyzer (RNA). This article will present that process, stating what an RNA implementation must observe to generate signalling from a railway layout stored in railML, a European open-standard used for railway infrastructure data exchange. The RNA analyses the layout’s static characteristics and gives essential information for further dynamic analysis. We will also introduce our RNA implementation in Python and comment on the obtained results of automatically processing canonical test layouts. Finally, railway practitioners conducted an analysis of an actual railway station using RNA, which confirmed the usability and robustness of our approach.