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To mitigate the adverse effects of climate change, greenhouse gas emissions need to be minimised. The FlexiDug project investigates sustainable transport perspectives for structurally transforming areas where coal mining phases out. This work presents a safe, economical, and extendable approach on reusing industrial railways for passenger transport. We have digitalised the Zugleitbetrieb, a mode of operation that requires no trackside equipment. Our Train Dispatcher in the Cloud (German Zugleiter in der Cloud, henceforth ZLiC) has been developed ontology- and model-based. It also takes a railway network model as input, e.g., for the generic interlocking logic. Speech to text, naturallanguage understanding, and text to speech recreate the established speech interface towards conductors. A state machine ensures the prescribed voice procedure. Custom voice-activated recording allows using COTS radio devices. ZLiC has been evaluated successfully in simulations and field tests. We plan further improvements, evaluations, and a risk assessment.

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Train Dispatcher in the Cloud – Digitalising Track Warrant Control for Safe Train Operations in Structurally Transforming Areas

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  • 出版模式：

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  • 发表日期：

    2026年

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  • Lukas Pirl,
  • Heiko Herholz,
  • Dirk Friedenberger,
  • Arne Boockmeyer,
  • Andreas Polze,
  • Birgit Milius

摘要

To mitigate the adverse effects of climate change, greenhouse gas emissions need to be minimised. The FlexiDug project investigates sustainable transport perspectives for structurally transforming areas where coal mining phases out. This work presents a safe, economical, and extendable approach on reusing industrial railways for passenger transport. We have digitalised the Zugleitbetrieb, a mode of operation that requires no trackside equipment. Our Train Dispatcher in the Cloud (German Zugleiter in der Cloud, henceforth ZLiC) has been developed ontology- and model-based. It also takes a railway network model as input, e.g., for the generic interlocking logic. Speech to text, naturallanguage understanding, and text to speech recreate the established speech interface towards conductors. A state machine ensures the prescribed voice procedure. Custom voice-activated recording allows using COTS radio devices. ZLiC has been evaluated successfully in simulations and field tests. We plan further improvements, evaluations, and a risk assessment.