C201 INCREASING PERFORMANCE OF THE RAIL NETWORK IN THE HEART OF EUROPE : A PROGRAM FOR THE SWISS FEDERAL RAILWAYS

抄録

The new wave of signalling in Europe heralded by ETCS opens the opportunity to rethink and restructure the way railways do business. Swiss federal railways is embarking upon a program to systematically exploit the possibilities of that system to increase track slot capacity on its network. This paper reports on that program which has 4 key foci : 1. Streamlining of the ETCS technology itself to maximize resulting track slot capacity, 2. Systematic saturation of the network to maximise the effect on a network wide basis, 3. Flexibilising scheduling procedures to maximise the uptake of the newly available track slots, 4. Developing a new approach to rail traffic management to ensure the success of a dense future timetable. Swiss federal railways plan to increase its network capacity by 30% by implementing this program.