RFI implements new technologies in order to upgrade the railway connections with the Europe North



Italian Railway net (RFI) has experienced system ERTMS/ETCS (European Rail Traffic Management System/European Train Control System) level 1 with the technology Infill Radio on the railway line Domodossola-Novara, that it takes part of European Core corridor IT TRY the Rhine-Alps that connect the ports of Antwerp and Rotterdam, crossing Holland, Belgium, Germany and Italy, to the port of Genoa.

The society of management of the infrastructure of the group Italian Railroads of the State has emphasized that draft of the first experimentation of this type to the world and that it has the objective to improve the management of the traffic of the fleeting trains and goods, to return interoperabili the transboundary railway lines of connection with Europe and to ulteriorly increase safety of the street crosswalks of level crossings.

RFI has evidenced that these technical tests have recorded optimal results so much so that in the 2017 system will be activated on the entire Domodossola-Novara line, of about 80 kilometers, and then extended on others inserted Italian drafts in the European corridors IT STILL TRY managed with electromechanical systems and SCMT. RFI has specified that, as soon as the lines are upgraded with new electronic apparatuses, it could be carried out the upgrading to level 2, already used on entire Italian system AV/AC.

The ERTMS/ETCS is the system used for the distanziamento in safety of the trains and for the control of the railway circulation. It is based on the broadcasting of data and information that, from control room to earth, reach the train in race directly. In this way it is possible to follow in real time, moment for moment, the march of the train and to supply to the machinist all the necessary indications to the guide in safety with the activation of the emergency braking if all the parameters and the conditions of safety are not respected (advanced speed to that allowed, slows down, obstacles on the railroads, etc). RFI has explained that the technology Infill Radio affords to manage the railway circulation from an only central Place being improved the functionalities of the electromechanical systems and returning the lines equipped with the System interoperabili Control Marcia Treni (SCMT).

The tests - it has specified RFI - have demonstrated the technical validity of the new system, that it affords to increase the performances of the lines through a continuous connection radio (GSM-R) between the trains, the long check points the line and the central control room, in this case situated to Novara. Thanks to the new technology, every train receives, moment for moment, the confirmation of green light in order to continue the travel considerably, improving the standards of regularity, punctuality and safety.