SmarTrain ® Rail Management System
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SmarTrain ® Rail Management System (RMS) is an integrated, real-time railway management system that provides monitoring and control of the rail operation by integrating major subsystems such as signaling, trackside devices, maintenance and corporate systems. SmarTrain ® RMS offers a powerful, flexible solution for railway operational management to plan, monitor, and dispatch the movement of all trains within the system.
Platform independent technology allows the SmarTrain ® system to grow with the railway. Using a dynamic architecture, the SmarTrain ® RMS can be deployed as just the Control Center to integrate existing systems or combined with the Onboard Computer component for even further value. This allows you to add functionality as needed, avoiding costly upfront investments.
And by utilizing integrated GPS and flexible communications options, SmarTrain ® RMS extracts the maximum value from your existing rail assets and leverages system efficiencies to generate real results—results you can count on—such as increased transportation capacity and reduced infrastructure investment.
Key SmarTrain ® features include auto-dispatching, train plan optimization and deviation monitoring, rule-based configuration of dispatcher and signaling commands and alarms, extensible track building and configuration, graphical playback audits, and scenario-based simulation training. Additionally SmarTrain ® RMS is designed to be compatible with future Communications-Based Train Control (CBTC) railway implementations.
SmarTrain ® RMS integrates and monitors signaling, movement, and detector information from current and legacy systems and displays a single, high-level, integrated view of the railway system. In addition, maintenance personnel, vehicles, and activities can be monitored as well as the health of all locomotives. This capability is extremely beneficial for train dispatchers, planners, operation managers, maintenance personnel, and a variety of external users.
Other key SmarTrain ® features include:
- Integrated Railway Management
- Locomotive on-board computers (OBC)
- Signaling systems interface
- Railway operation planning tools
- Maintenance application integration
- Wayside Systems Interface
- Corporate Systems Interface
- Position monitoring: trains, rail-cars, personnel
- Modularity and Scalability
- High-availability for SmarTrain ® software and hardware
- Friendly Graphic User Interfaces
Key Benefits
Strategic Results
- Increase capacity, efficiency and productivity
- Reduce infrastructure and operational costs
- Decrease dependency on legacy systems and third party equipment suppliers
- Improve quality of service
- Dynamic optimization and flexibility for train planning and dispatch processes
- Reduced response time to actions, routine procedures, and emergency events enabling faster and more reliable decisions
- Integration of on-board, signaling, maintenance, planning, dispatching, and corporate systems
- Accurate and uniform communication—operators see the same critical operational information as control center dispatchers
- Lower internal communication costs among different operational functions
- Scalability, usability, and high availability