ABSTRACT
Tomorrow’s train traffic, with higher speed, more frequent traffic, and many independent traffic operation companies, requires new principles and technical solutions for efficient train traffic control. Today's control systems are often designed to support the operator's possibilities to react on alarms, conflicts and disturbances and to solve problems and conflicts that occur. However, in order to perform efficiently, operators should be able to follow the dynamic development of the traffic system over time and prevent disturbances. In order to achieve this, we must change the control paradigm from low level technical control tasks into higher level traffic planning tasks. This is done by replacing the more traditional control tasks by real-time re-planning tasks [Sandblad et al. 2002].
