EDITORIAL

摘要

Dear readers, the "Digital Railway Test Site", which focuses on the Ore Mountain railway between Annaberg-Buchholz and Schwarzenberg, has been further extended. The Federal Ministry of Transport has provided 15 million EUR after undertaking an "examination of the budgetary and aid constraints" and the Deutsche Bahn has also matched this amount from its own funds. This should lead to investments in vehicles and infrastructure. The entire line will be equipped with digital interlockings (DSTW) (like Annaberg-Buchholz) and will receive ETCS Level 3 (already available in some sections) and the FRMCS standard as the successor to GSM-R. This edition provides information about the successful commissioning of a digital interlocking (DSTW) in pre-mass-production projects, specifically the Warnemuende DSTW. The important project digitalisation milestones in this case are the pilot projects for the reference implementation and the associated pre-mass-production projects. Other articles deal with the OCORA project (the European initiative for equipping vehicles with ETCS in the future) and the options for precise train location in real-time based on FOS, as well as the Adaptive Train Routing project as part of the digitalisation offensive at OEBB.