Speakers Profile ETCS II Final122.252.230.113/content/atp_etcs/Synopsis.pdfVenkata Ramana, Dean IRISET, graduated from NITW in ECE, served as Computer Systems Engineer in Engineers

Workshop

AUTOMATIC TRAIN PROTECTION SYSTEMS

with special focus on

ETCS Level - II

November 14 & 15, 2019

भारत सरकार – रेल मतं्रालय

भारतीय रेल िसगनल इंजीिनयरी और दरूसंचार सं थान तारनाका रोड, िसकंदराबाद – 500 017 Indian Railways Institute of Signal Engineering and Telecommunications Government of India – Ministry of Railways Tarnaka Road, Secunderabad – 500 017

Workshop

ATP Systems with special focus on ETCS Level-II

Program Details

November 14, 2019 Thursday

09:45 Inaugural Session

Session I

10:00 ERTMS/ETCS II Requirements (Subset 026) Shri P Venkata Ramana

Dean, IRISET

11:00 Interfacing RBC with Existing Signalling Relay & Electronic Interlocking Signalling Systems -

Standards, Protocols, issues & Solutions Shri Anuj Gautam

Engineering Manager, ETCS, Siemens Rail Automation Ltd., India Shri Axel Muench

Siemens Mobility GmBH, Germany

Health Break

12:10 Interfacing RBC with Lineside Equipment - Balises & Odometry Correction; and Onboard Computer (OBC)

- Standards, Protocols, issues & Solutions Shri Anuj Gautam

Engineering Manager, ETCS, Siemens Rail Automation Ltd., India Shri Axel Muench

Siemens Mobility GmBH, Germany

13:00 Implementation, Validation and Issues involved; An Experience Shri Rasmi Ranjan Ray

Head of Rail Control Solutions, Bombardier Transportation

Long Break

Session II

15:00 Pilot Projects for ETCS II; and Mission to achieve 12 hours running time: Delhi-Howrah, Delhi-Mumbai Sections - Scope, Detailing, Targets & Challenges

Shri Pradeep M Sikdar Executive Director/Signal Development, Railway Board

Health Break

16:10 Operating Guidelines w.r.t running ETCS II for Trains in a Mixed Mode Scenario Shri Rajiv Kant Jain

Executive Director/II/Signal, RDSO

November 15, 2019 Friday

Session III

09:00 Role of Communication in ETCS II Global Scenario; Advantages of LTE over GSM-R, LTE Subsystems, Components,

Terminology, Features, Brief Working Spectrum Utilisation, BW requirements Dr Raja Goundan

Joint Director, Center of Excellence in Wireless Technology (CEWIT), IIT Society, Chennai Dr J Klutto Milleth

Chief Technologist, CEWIT, IIT Society, Chennai

Health Break

11:10 LTE for Railways Global Standards, Use Cases, Architecture-eNodeB to Cab & eNodeB to Central Core

Communication, RBS Spacing, Standby arrangements; Case Study-Thane Station, Global Trail System Results, Network Design Parameters;

Shri Mayank Bhargava Director, Key Account Manager, Ericsson, India

Shri Jitender Kumar Director & Network Solution Lead, Ericsson, India

Shri David Rothbaum Ericsson, Sweden (On Skype)

Health Break

13:10 Calibration, Testing & Maintenance of Various Subsystems and Components; Signal Track Circuit Balise Predictive

Maintenance and Asset Analysis Presentation of ETCS II Testing & Maintenance Shri Jean Merlo

Director, ERTMS Solutions, Belgium

Long Break

Session IV

15:00 Introduction to TCAS, Components, Working and Issues Shri B Obula Krishna

Manager (R&D), Medha Servo Drives Pvt Ltd, Hyderabad

Health Break

16:10 Interoperability with National Railway Signalling system and TCAS Shri B Obula Krishna

Manager (R&D), Medha Servo Drives Pvt Ltd, Hyderabad

17:00 Conclusion

Speaker’s Profile In order of Presentations

Shri P Venkata Ramana IRISET, Indian Railways

Venkata Ramana, Dean IRISET, graduated from NITW in ECE, served as Computer Systems Engineer in Engineers India Limited, New Delhi before joining Indian Railways as IRSSE 1985 batch Officer. He is having 32 years experience in Signalling. He executed several projects in SCR and ECoR involving EI systems including CTC over Networked EIs. He taught Signalling at IRISET as Senior Professor. He served Atkins Rail as Signalling Designer for UK Railways. He presented several technical papers at IIT Kharagpur, IRSTE Workshops, IE forums, PCSTEs Conferences and published papers on subjects ETCS, EI, CTC, Heavy Haul, Lightning Protection, etc., He is convener for the Committee on

‘Standardisation of S&T Drawings and Documentation’, and published ‘Standards of S&T Drawings V2.0’. He co-authored Chapter on ‘EI’ for SEM. He has established the society ‘IRSTE Licensing Organisation’ at IRISET for regulation of S&T industry in regard to design and installation of signalling systems, and presently serving as Vice-Chairman for the organisation. He visited the UK, France, Japan and Hongkong to study modern and high speed signalling systems. He is a Certified Internal Auditor, Workplace Assessor & Java Programmer. He is a recipient of ‘Principal’s Medal of NAIR, GM Award’ for Development of MIS Applications; ‘CSTE and GM Awards’ for Best maintained division while he was SrDSTE/SC.

Shri Anuj Gautam Siemens Rail Automation

. Anuj Gautam, Manager Engineering at Mobility Infrastructure Siemens Limited Mobility. B.Tech in Electronics & Telecommunication with 12+ Years of professional experience in Railway Signalling having hands on experience for complete project lifecycle from bids to commissioning. Held multiple roles and responsibilities on various Signalling system allowing to build comprehensive knowledge and understanding towards Safety, System Management, Standards and Engineering processes. Experience with both domestic and international projects of varied complexities and technologies for Signalling, Base designs, Interlocking, Indoor and Outdoor engineering, Train Protection Systems (ETCS), Engineering processes and Safety.


Shri Axel Muench

Siemens Mobility GmBH

.

Axel Muench, Senior

Sales Manager at Siemens

Mobility GmbH Germany.

Axel started his

professional career at

German Railways as a

trained signaling

technician. After studying

Rail Safety Systems he

joined Siemens Mobility

and held a variety of

positions in Germany and

abroad centered around

Rail Automation Systems

allowing to build up a

broad and comprehensive

understanding of Rail

Signalling systems for

mass transit and for main

line.

Shri Rasmi Ranjan Ray

Bombardier Transportation

Rasmi Ranjan Ray

joined Bombardier

Transportation in 2013 as

a Project Director leading

the delivery of India’s first

driverless Metro solution

for Delhi Metro Rail

Corporation Ltd (DMRC).

In 2015, Mr. Ray became

Head of Rail Control

Solutions, India and

Whole Time Director for

India legal entity. He has

been instrumental in

delivering around 140kms

of signalling solution for

Delhi Metro across 4 lines.

With over 20 years of

experience, he is one of

the most seasoned and

experienced Indian rail

signalling professional

having worked and

delivered large scale

complex infrastructure

projects in India,

Australia, UK and other

European countries.

Prior to Bombardier, he

worked on various

leadership assignments in

India, Southeast Asia and

Australia at General

Electric. He has also

worked at Altran Praxis,

Siemens & Alstom

delivering signalling

projects across

geographies.

Rasmi has a Global

Executive MBA degree

from Indian School of

Business, Hyderabad, and

an Engineering Degree in

Electronics and Telecom

from Utkal University,

Bhubaneswar. Rasmi

has undergone executive

management modules at

CEIBS (China Europe

International

Business School,

Shanghai), Wharton and

Kellogg School of

Management, USA.


Shri Pradeep M Sikdar RB, Indian Railways

Shri Pradeep M Sikdar, presently working as Executive Director (Signal Development) Railway Board is an IRSSE Officer of 1986 batch. He is responsible for implementation of Signalling modernisation plan (Automatic Train Protection system, Centralised Traffic Control system, Train Management System, Remote Diagnostic & Predictive Maintenance system, Automatic Signalling system etc), approval of works estimates (New Lines, Doubling, Gauge conversion), technical clearance of Metro projects including High speed projects, Development of Train Collision Avoidance System (TCAS) etc. He served as CSTE/Construction/ NWR/ Jaipur. During 2015-16, he commissioned 331 KMs of New line, Doubling and

GC works. He served in Railway Electrification projects in various capacities and in IRCON International Ltd as General Manager (S&T). He had executed modern signalling including Electronic Interlocking, ETCS, CTC, OFC, Automatic Signalling in India and abroad - Iran, Bangladesh, Malaysia, Sri Lanka, UK etc. I am Associated Member of IRSTE, Fellow Member of IETE and acquired Qualified Management Professional Certificate Level D Certification.

Shri R K Jain RDSO, Indian Railways

Sri Rajiv Kant Jain, presently working as Executive Director (Signal), RDSO Lucknow, is an IRSSE officer of 1987 batch. He has an experience in signalling maintenance and construction. He served RDSO and RVNL in various capacities. He has been closely associated with the designing and standardization of electro-mechanical signalling equipment, LED signals, AFTCs and Point machines etc. He published papers in various technical journals. Prior to joining Indian Railways, he worked with the Ministry of I&B and Indian Telephone Industries.


Dr. P. Raja Goundan IRSSE, PhD (IIT) FIET

Dr. P Raja Goundan holds a Ph.D from IIT Chennai. 36 year experience in Railway Signalling and Telecom. Chief Signal and Tele Engineer on Eastern and South Central Railways. Additional Member in Railway Board and retired as General Manager.. Post retirement Joint Director CEWIT, IIT Chennai from 2007. Consultant for Hyderabad, Nagpur, Pune Metro Rail 25 publications, Engineer of the year award by the Government of Andhra Pradesh. Above all keen interest in railway signaling.

Dr. J Klutto Milleth CEWIT, IIT Society

Dr. J Klutto Milleth obtained Ph.D. in space-time wireless communication in the year 2004 from IIT Madras. He has more than 28 years of teaching and research experience. He is a Chief Technologist at CEWiT, IIT Madras, and he is with the centre since October 2004. He is currently leading a team comprising of over 40 people with a research and development focus mainly on the L1, L2, and L3 layers of 4G and 5G Broadband Wireless Communication systems. He has gained rich standardization experience by participating and significantly contributing in the 4G and 5G technology development by IEEE 802.16m (WiMAX-2), 3GPP-LTE, and 3GPP-NR. Currently, he is working on the 5G wireless technologies and driving the 5G research and

development activities within CEWiT. The major project he is leading are the collaborative research project in 5G involving IISc Bangalore, IIT Madras, IIT Bombay and IIT Hyderabad and the L1, L2, and L3 layer implementation of a massive end to end 5G NR test bed project within CEWiT, which also involves IITM, IITB, IITD, IITK, IITH, IISc Bangalore, and SAMEER Chennai. Apart from the above he is also handling Industry projects from public and private industries including Indian Railways and Defence departments. His research activity till date has led to the publications in fifteen leading international conferences and seven reputed international journals. Moreover, he has filed thirty-eight patents in India and the US, and 12 of them were already granted. He had served as a committee member of two high level task force on Application Standards and the Intelligent Transport Systems set up by the Government of India related to 5G. He is also a member of the 5G implementation cell for 5G India 2020 constituted by MEITY, Government of India.


Shri Mayank Bhargava Ericsson India

Mayank is a seasoned and passionate business leader with more than 26 years of experience in the Telecom and ICT services domains, specializing in B2B/B2G business development and generating new sales opportunities. He has vast experience leading distributed teams, managing key accounts, closing complex deals and delivering complex turnkey projects. Presently, he is the Director and Key Account Manager for the Emerging Business unit at Ericsson India. Previously, he has held different roles including Account Manager, for large Industry 4.0 accounts, and ICT Operations Manager. He is an ethical, energetic and results-oriented leader with a customer-centric mindset; his approach entails "Value Creation" for the client with a penchant for challenging the status-quo, externally and internally, in a

constructive and innovative manner. He holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering and a diploma in Marketing Management. He has a passion for continuous learning and has pursued leadership and executive programs in top-rated academic institutions across India and Europe. He is of Indian origin, married and a proud father of two young kids.

Shri Jitender Kumar Ericsson India

Telecom Professional, with over 29 years of experience in Wireless System Engineering, Strategy, Sales Support, Product Management, Network Design & Operations.

Technical expertise in 3GPP Access e.g., LTE (including 5G NR), Packet core and IP transport.

Presently responsible for Technical solutions at Ericsson India limited for Networks portfolio for Customer unit – Service Providers.

Working with Ericsson from last 20 year, commencing from June 2000. Held the position of Chief Technology Officer (CTO) and key part of the team that handled multi-million-dollar services & equipment business – right from inception to contract fulfillment for various customers like Aircel, Dishnet wireless and Vodafone (earlier known as Hutchison & Essar).


Prior to joining Ericsson, worked as Chief Manager & Head of Engineering for Escotel Mobile (now known as Idea cellular) and was responsible for GSM Network Planning, Engineering and Operation of Haryana Telecom circle.

Before Joining Escotel work as Member Technical Support for Center of development of Telematics (C-DoT) and was instrumental in the Design and field trial/testing for Digital Switching System.

Specialties: End to End Technical Solution for 2G,3G LTE including 5G NR. Strategy and Technical Sales support, Product management, Network Design & operations.

Shri David Rothbaum Ericsson Sweden

Responsible for LTE for Rail portfolio at Ericsson. Ericsson delegate at ETSI Railway Telecommunications standardization subcommittee to define the Future Railway Mobile Communications System (FRMCS) as well as European Communications Commission subcommittee on railway spectrum. Expert in 5G,4G,3G, GSM-R core architectures and radio planning , mission critical communications as well as Mission Critical push-to talk Previously was Chief Engineer at Nortel for GSM-R projects in Eastern Europe

Shri Jean Merlo ERTMS Solutions Belgium

Jean Merlo joined the company ERTMS Solutions as Business Development Director in 2018. He is in charge of the business development of the company, with a focus on Asia and North America. He ensures that ERTMS Solutions’ products remain highly exportable to assist clients facing the same challenges all over the world. With more than 20 years of experience in the Railway Industry, he acquired proven expertise on signaling, telecommunication, electronics and research engineering. His career has always been driven by his passion for travelling, culture discovery and engineering innovations. He has a Masters In Civil Engg specialized in Electricity/Electronics from the University of Liège, Belgium.


Shri B Obula Krishna Medha Servo Drives

Obula Krishna did his Masters in Science from Sri Venkateswara University, Tirupati. He is having varied experience in design and development of Railway Signalling Systems such as Electronic Interlocking , Solid State Block Proving and Train Collision Avoidance Systems. He is presently working as Manager (R&D) at Medha Servo Drives Pvt. Ltd, Hyderabad.

Synopsis In order of Presentations

ERTMS/ ETCS

Requirements

Subset-026

Author

P Venkata Ramana

European Railway Traffic

Management System

(ERTMS) is evolved to

harmonize cross-border

rail connections for

seamless operations

across European nations.

ERTMS is stated to be the

most performant train

control system which

brings significant

advantages in terms of

safety, reliability,

punctuality and traffic

capacity.

ERTMS is evolving as a

global standard. Many

countries outside Europe

- US, China, Taiwan,

South Korea and Saudi

Arabia are adopting

ERTMS standards for train

traffic command and

control.

ERTMS has basically two

components - European

Train Control System

(ETCS) and Radio

Communications.

Subset 026 is a

ERTMS/ETCS System

Requirement Specification

(SRS) document. It has 8

chapters covering basic

system description,

principles, modes and

transitions, procedures,

protocols and messaging

in regard to ETCS

systems.

This presentation is an

introduction to ETCS

covering system structure

overview, basic

application levels,

principles, modes,

behaviour of the system

in general and functional

terms.

ETCS II

Interfacing and

Overview

Author

Shri Anuj Gautam,

Shri Axel Muench,

As Indian Railways is

looking to improve the

speeds of trains, need of

improved Safety and Cab

Signalling is growing day

by day. The role of

human factors,

specifically actions

provided by the train

driver should always be

included when

considering the safety of

the railway.

ETCS being overlay to

existing system, takes

information from the

different systems present

on track (Interlocking,

TVD, Signalling, etc) and

train (Speed, Direction,

Brakes, Traction,

Interfaces, etc) already

available; and in turn

ensuring trains operate

safely at all times in

providing safe movement

authority directly to the


driver through the cab

display and in

continuously monitoring

the driver’s actions. ETCS

L2 is in fact an ATP

system, based on cab

Signalling and continuous

track to train data

transmission.

The presentation will

introduce onboards

subsystem of ETCS L2

consisting of various

equipments and

interfaces.

ETCS II

Implementation and

Validation: An

Experience

Author

Rasmi Ranjan Ray

Bombardier has an

enormous experience in

providing ERTMS L2

solutions in Europe and

elsewhere. In fact, they

were the first supplier to

commission an ERTMS

Level 2 system for

commercial operation in

Switzerland, 2002.

They are implementing

the moving block ERTMS

Level 3 solution.

They are presently

carrying out the projects

which include major lines

in Algeria, Brazil, Chile,

Morocco, the Netherlands,

Poland, Spain, Sweden

and Turkey.

The presentation covers

the their experience in

various global projects on

various ERTMS/ETCS.

Indian Railways

ETCS II Projects

Author

Pradeep M Sikdar

A work of modernization

of signalling system with

ETCS II is included in the

PB 18-19 for Indian

Railways.

Subsequently, the work

was reviewed and it is

decided to do extensive

trials of ETCS II system on

HDN routes. Accordingly,

four works of Modern

Train Control System on

four different sections for

a total section length of

640 RKMs have been

sanctioned in the

supplementary works

program 18-19. The

works have been

assigned to Railtel

Enterprises Ltd.

A work for Mission to

achieve 12hrs Running

time on Delhi-Howrah &

Delhi-Mumbai sections is

also targeted for early

completion.

The presentation covers

the details about these

projects.


Operating Guidelines for ETCS II in a Mixed mode traffic scenario Author R K Jain

As per existing train working system on Indian Railways train Operations are supervised manually by section controllers and Station Masters and train movements are governed by trackside fixed Signals. Hence, train safety ultimately depends on Loco Pilot’s response to the signal aspects of fixed Signals.

Trains in ETCS L-II territory works on continuous update of Movement Authority (maximum safe distance allowed for the train to travel) with speed profile displayed to the loco pilot on Driver Machine Interface (DMI). If speed limit exceeds or the safe distance of travel is likely to be exceeded, the ETCS onboard equipment intervenes to control the speed of the train

including bringing it to a standstill, if necessary.

The working of mixed mode traffic, manual shunting and running of ETCS equipped trains without line side signals will require modifications in existing codes and manuals of Indian Railways. This paper is a brainstorming exercise to point out the peculiarity of working of mixed trains in ETCS L-II which requires changes not only in the General Rules (GR) and Signal Engineering Manual (SEM) but also in Operating Block Working Rules, Signaling and Interlocking Principles and standard operating procedure for Loco Pilots.

ETCS II Communication Requirements Author Dr. Raja Goundan Dr. J Klutto Milleth

An overview of LTE starting from the system requirements in terms of capacity, coverage and latency to provide various services, and the technology enablers to achieve the needs will be provided. The OFDM technology fundamentals, the multiple access for downlink and uplink signal transmission in LTE, and introduction to various basic definitions and parameters with respective to LTE will be discussed. The LTE subsystems and components for both downlink and uplink will be explained. The LTE transmission frame structure, symbol structure, bandwidth configuration and support, various physical signals, initial access and modulation in both DL and UL, Data and control


transmission. Various

transmission modes and

introduction SU_MIMO

and MU-MIMO will also

be discussed. At last

some study results on

bandwidth requirement

for railways for train

control and monitoring,

and for passenger

internet access will also

be discussed.

LTE

Communication

Author

Shri Mayank Bhargava

Shri Jitender Kumar

Shri David Rothbaum

After a very brief

introduction to Ericsson

history and its

contributions to

Communication World

and in India, they will

share LTE Use Cases

which can be utilised by

Railways followed by talk

on evolving LTE Global

Standards for Railways in

ETSI in collaboration with

UIC, Spectrum Scenario

across the globe and in

India.

This will be followed by

how the architecture of

LTE network will evolve

including Cab Nodes with

its connectivity to LTE

network and what are

the basic network design

philosophy which will

ensure 99.999% SLA of

network uptime

availability.

Post this session, Ericsson

will share its ETCS2 over

LTE trial results along

with a typical station

capacity utilization use

case on LTE Vs GSM R;

basic deployment, O&M

and AMC philosophy

which need to be

captured to ensure the

said uptime network

availability.


ETCS II Testing &

Maintenance

Author

Shri Jean Merlo

New Technology requires

new tools for

measurements, testing

and maintenance ETCS is

new block and requires

automated and

sophisticated tools for

calibration and

measurements. The

following are some of the

instruments which are

required for ETCS -

‘ERTMS CamCorder’ is a

tool for trackside -

onboard ERTMS testing,

on diagnostic trains,

‘Balise Life Check’

automates maintenance of

balises ETCS / ERTMS

Eurobalise, generate

alarms and produce and

report detailed signal

quality information when

passing over the balises.

‘ERTMS Formal Spec’ is a

Workbench used to

model and animate

ERTMS specifications for

onboard units in

laboratories

‘Test OBU Sil0’ is a

lightweight

implementation of an

onboard ERTMS

application that can be

used either in a lab or

onboard (not connected

to the brakes), with

simulated or automated

input from the BTM, TIU,

RBC.

The presentation

introduces the required

tools and plants for ETCS.

Introduction to

TCAS &

Interoperability with

National Railway

Signalling & ETCS II

Author

Shri B Obula Krishna

Train Collision

Avoidance System is

an Indigenous

Automatic Train

Protection (ATP)

System.

This presentation

covers a brief overview

of TCAS and its

suitability on IR,

features, basic principle

of working,

functionality,

operational modes and

Loco pilot interaction

with the system,

system architecture

and its interface with

railway equipment, its

radio interface, RFID

tags; NMS & KMS.

This presentation also

covers the functionality

of TCAS in ETCS L2

section, Transition


procedures from TCAS territory to ETCS L2 territory and vice-versa, implementation of ERTMS/ETCS Standards Subset-026 (Eurobalise & Euroradio messages), Subset-036,, 037, 098, GSM-R/LTE-R & KMC interface requirements in TCAS.

Documents

Speakers Profile ETCS II Final122.252.230.113/content/atp_etcs/Synopsis.pdfVenkata Ramana, Dean IRISET, graduated from NITW in ECE, served as Computer Systems Engineer in Engineers