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Title:

Track Circuit Monitoring Tool: Standardization and Deployment at CTA

Accession Number:

01662972

Record Type:

Monograph

Abstract:

The Fort Totten incident at Washington Metro in 2009 and the subsequent National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) urgent recommendation R-09-6 prompted Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA) to initiate the developed of a Loss of Shunt (LOS) Tool. The tool issues alerts to Operations and Maintenance (O&M) to report potential safety critical failure conditions of track circuits. For WMATA the LOS tool has become an important track circuit monitoring tool, which is fully integrated in O&M operating procedures. The purpose of this project is to evaluate the existing software of the WMATA LOS tool, segregating it from the WMATA exclusive environment and enhancing the tool in order to become a standardized and independent Track Circuit Monitoring System (TCM) available for integration into other transit authorities’ central control systems. Part of this project is to provide proof of concept by deploying the TCM product at the Chicago Transit Authority (CTA) for the Blue Line. Included in the TCM software package will be graphical user interface applications that support the end-user in setting up the track network database, loading track circuit data for offline processing, and providing means for detection and analysis of track anomalies. The success of this project substantiates the value the TCM tool can provide to the Operations and Maintenance department of transit agencies and to demonstrate the potential for improved systems oversight that enhances safety and reliability in vital applications of train detection systems. As a result of this project, CTA has indicated to proceed with the TCM deployment for all remaining CTA rapid transit lines.

Report/Paper Numbers:

Transit IDEA Project 83

Language:

English

Authors:

Beeck, Frank

Pagination:

31p

Publication Date:

2017-12

Serial:

TRANSIT-IDEA Program Project Final Report

Issue Number: 83
Publisher: Transportation Research Board

Edition:

Final Report

Media Type:

Digital/other

Features:

Appendices; Figures; References; Tables

Uncontrolled Terms:

Shunting

Subject Areas:

Public Transportation; Safety and Human Factors; Terminals and Facilities

Files:

TRIS, TRB, ATRI

Created Date:

Mar 11 2018 2:50PM