Alister 2.0 - Programmable Logic Controllers in Railway Interlocking Systems for Regional Lines of the DB Netze AG

Railway interlockings are dominated by highly proprietary systems. We present the development project Alister 2.0 – an interlocking system based on industry-proven standard components: Safety PLCs in distributed nodes communicate over safe network protocols. This enables a highly productive and highly maintainable fail-safe interlocking system for centralised traffic control. Keywords and phrases electronic interlocking, PLC, regional lines, ESTW-R

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2011
• Where: KIVS
• Authors: Reiner Saykowski, Elferik Schultz, Joachim Bleidiessel
• Keywords: Computer Networks, KIVS 2011, Network Protocols, Proprietary Systems, Regional Lines