TRACE, a new concept for planning, control and the adjustment of rail traffic

摘要

The Netherlands Railways have developed a new integrated concept for managing the modern railway (planning, control and adjustment of the train operations). This paper describes, after a brief introduction on the general concept, the functional and technical architecture of the traffic control subsystem in the new concept. Described are the role in the concept, the main functions of the system and the software solutions, which garantee a good performing system in a nation wide approach for traffic control.