Breakthrough: Automatic Route Setting from AŽD Praha is comming to Polish railway infrastructure

Automatic train route setting (ANP RJ) is a Czech intelligent technology of the AŽD company, which organizes and controls rail operation without human intervention at railway junctions and on entire branches of the railway network according to the actual position of the train. Such an advanced and operationally proven control system over the years is not yet offered by other suppliers operating on the Polish railway market.

This intelligent railway traffic control system will be installed on line No. 351 from Poznan to Szczecin, where AŽD has already delivered its own modern digital interlockings StationSWing ESA 44-PL, remotely controlled from the LCS dispatcher’s workplaces located in Poznan and Stargard.

The ANP RJ control system enables efficient organization of railway traffic operation. The benefit lies in the possibility of automatic operation of the signalling system based on the operational daily train timetable and its current position. The system thus automatically sets the train routes on the correct, pre-planned tracks from the train timetable and at the right time.

"ANP RJ solves traffic management not from the safety point of view - this is solved by open-line, station and level crossing signalling systems - but from the point of view of the smoothness and efficiency of the railway vehicles movement," explains AŽD General Director Zdeněk Chrdle.

The TrafficSWing GTN operational application with the Automatic Route Setting (ANP RJ) function will provide PKP PLK dispatchers with a much higher quality and more accurate picture of the traffic situation than the current method of work based on the personal experience of each transport employee, the accuracy of estimation or personal calculation of minutes of train movement times. At the same time, the system will propose to the dispatcher a high-quality solution respecting the smoothness of rail traffic, and he will make a decision whether and which proposed solution to accept. Automatic Route Setting (ANP RJ) can tirelessly construct thousands of train routes every day and resolve all arising traffic conflicts in the controlled area.

"The Automatic Route Setting system has been used on the lines of the Railway Administration and AŽD in the Czech Republic since 2016 and is routinely operated on almost 1,000 km of lines at 125 traffic points. Thanks to these many years of experience, we greatly appreciate the opportunity to introduce this intelligent railway traffic management system also on Polish railways, where we are becoming a pioneer in the supply of this innovative technology," concludes Zdeněk Chrdle.