Main line ATO study

摘要

Federal railway research body DZSF is providing €1.7m to fund two projects to define requirements for authorising the automated operation of regional and main line passenger services. The studies will consider Grade of Automation 3 (automated operation with an onboard attendant able to intervene in an emergency) and GoA4 (unattended). Project A is led by TU Berlin and includes aerospace research centre DLR, DB's engineering business DB Systemtechnik and Siemens Mobility. It will investigate functional requirements for sensors and logic, comparing the performance of manually driven and automated trains to identify what the automated systems will need to be able to do to match the capabilities of a human driver.