Automated control system for railway yards

Application:

Automation of the following processes at classification yards:
• - management of the car traffic volume;
• - creation of a dynamic information model reflecting the current state of arrival and departure tracks, classification tracks and other tracks of the yard;
• - operation of “local” cars;
• - record-keeping and analysis of operations;
• - maintenance of an archive of the car model of the yard with data retention time of 7 years;
• - generation of reports.

The system can be used for automation of processes at any railway yard through adaptation of the software to local conditions. It can be effectively integrated into the automated railway traffic control system as its lower control level, and modular software design and standard interface protocols allow for future enhancement of the system functionality.

Operation of the system is based on numbered inventory registration of the yard’s car fleet. The time of operations with each car is recorded in the archive and is used for automated generation of reports on yard movements, including detention of uncoupled freight cars.

The system provides automation of the following processes:
• - continuous control of the availability, location and state of cars on loading and unloading tracks and spur tracks of the yard;
• - presentation of information about arrival of the cargo to clients, maintenance of records of freight operations, preparation of shunting operations for making up trains;
• - document procedures related to cargo handling, generation of necessary documents and input of information about the cargo and the car destination station into the system;
• - commercial inspection of cars and generation of standard inspection reports;
• - inventory of disabled cars and their repair and generation of accompanying documents and documents necessary for start and end of repair.

The capacity of classification yards equipped with the automated control system is increased by a factor of three as compared with classification yards equipped only with automation facilities controlled from a remote control centre. This threefold capacity increase is achieved due to reduced times of all yard processes.

Round-the-clock service of the system can be performed by 4 or 5 people.