The document discusses digital mapping and tracking technologies for rail transport. It describes how detailed digital maps of railways can help enforce safety rules and how tracking assets digitally can alert authorities if anything exits unauthorized. It also discusses how movement and coupling optimization can minimize accident risks and costs through predictive maintenance and automated train driving. The technologies aim to remove human error from logistics operations and reduce rail incident risks.

1. DGNSS & Autonomous Rail Transport
Mobility - Optimization
VIENNA
19.03.2019, Austria
Christian Herneth

2. • Detailed maps of internal railways include safety rules and help enforce them
• Security benefit of digital tracking & geofencing assets to alert unauthorized exit
• Movement & coupling optimization for shunting minimizes risk of accident & cost
• Digital Assets Model for predictive maintenance, Standards based Supply Chain
Services, forefront of automated train driving
• Removing human error from the logistics equation
• Reducing risk of rail incidents
Zero harm, no losses & minimal Supply Chain cost
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3. Track Builder Suite (TBS)
• DigRail maps railways & generates a digital three-dimensional rail network model of
internal and external railways
• AssetRail describes a rail network in greater detail with inclusion of additional
assets (crossings, signals, etc)
Track Tracer Suite (TTS)
• RailTracer provides digital tracking of positions using track model from Track Builder
• MapTracer provides digital tracking of positions outside internal railways using
Google Maps or other
• EasyTrack is a mobile app. to display positions
First operational components
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4. Track Builder Suite - TBS
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5. Track Tracer Suite - TTS
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6. Digital environment and tools are laying the groundwork for:
• Automated decision making
• Optimized shunting operations
• Rail Cargo Austria improves dispatching service level to feederline
• Automatic positioning of rail-asset RTCs to avoid shortages
• Can simulate dispatching operating-modes to test for capacity problems
• Autonomous locomotives
• Autonomizing rail operation and removing human error factors will improve safety
performance
• RTMO rail environment has been designed to comply with ISO/ÖNORM4920 standards
Next Step Vision
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