VALIDATION AND SIMULATION-BASED TRAINING ENVIRONMENT FOR THE DOWNTOWN LINE IN SINGAPORE

Singapore’s Downtown Line, scheduled in three phases and with a total length of 42 kilometres, has already started operating. The project, which should be completed by 2017, will connect the city’s north-western and eastern residential areas with the centre and have a total of 34 stations.

The line operates with the CBTC-UTO (Unattended Train Operation) system. Siemens has equipped the line, supplying the automatic Trainguard Sirius CBTC system and Trackguard Westrace MK2 electronic interlockings. The automatic operation supervision system is Controlguide Rail 9000.

For this project, CITEF developed a simulator to verify and validate the ATS and train its operators. This system comprises the simulation of the line and the field elements together with rail traffic and its connection with the actual ATS using the same interfaces used in the real line. This makes it possible to validate the system in a simulation environment and then train operators.



Test systems of this type manage to make huge time and cost savings in the commissioning of control and management systems for rail traffic.