Issues of Railway Traffic Control Devices Availability in the Exploitation Process

Abstract

This article focuses exclusively on the issues of railway traffic control devices availability in traffic management. One of the factors affecting this availability are tests conducted during maintenance or repair works. A review of the literature in the field of test determination methods was conducted. Next, the railway traffic control system was described and the elements influencing availability were defined. Assumptions and an algorithm of the procedure were presented and the method of determining the tests was proposed.

Increasing the Readiness of Railway Traffic Control Devices Using a Functional Test Generation Method

“…Indeed, important deliberations on the traffic situation can be also found in the field of air transport [35][36][37]. The experience of the authors and the negative impacts of checks on device availability identified in the course of test program execution, as described in [38][39][40] is, therefore, a motive for commencing work on developing a method supporting test set determination.…”