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ITS and Public Transport: Rail Professor John Preston Chair in Rail Transport What can ITS do for railways? Automatic Train Location Automatic Train Control/Driver Assistance Systems Smart Ticketing and Intelligent Pricing

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ITS and Public Transport: Rail

Professor John Preston Chair in Rail Transport

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What can ITS do for railways?

  • Automatic Train Location
  • Automatic Train Control/Driver

Assistance Systems

  • Smart Ticketing and Intelligent Pricing
  • Security and Surveillance
  • Multimodal, real-time passenger

information & navigation systems

  • On train and station displays
  • Through Journey Apps

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Case Study (I) Rail Passenger Needs

  • Limited (short-run) effects

in terms of passenger and revenue growth

  • Greater potential for cost

reductions (e.g. retail distribution)

  • Initially mitigated by

fragmented market and technology proliferation

  • But internet technology

beginning to dominate.

Internet Buyers 15% Call centre buyers 14% FTM 4% Use technology for info only 34% Use technology for info only 15% Buy in advance 15% And call centre info (not web) 10% And web for info 4% And web/call centre for info 4% Use web/call centre for info only 34% Buy in advance 10% Buy in advance 4% Buy on the day 4% Buy on the day train/station 18% Buy in advance
  • n station
8% Buy in advance Travel agent /someone else 8% Use technology 67% Don’t use technology 27% Travel centre/ train 20% Travel agent /someone else 7% Don’t use technology for info 20% Don’t use technology for info 7% Buy in advance 8% Buy on the day 12% Bought/ booked in advance 7% Level 1 Technology Level 2 Purchase Level 3 Information Level 4 When purchase ticket
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Case Study (II): Capacity Management Systems

CUI Measures (%) 07:00 to 09:00 190 Nodes and associated links Min Max Mean Nodes - Existing 64 25

  • Optimised 0

81 26 Links - Existing 51 23

  • Optimised 0

73 24 Smarter scheduling could eliminate train waiting times and increase train movements by 26%.

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Academic Response to Rail Technical Strategy 2012

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Key Issue: Understanding the Human: Machine Interface. Beware the ironies of automation.