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Incremental Train Control System
ITCS
Enabling High Speed Rail
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Michigan Territory Overview

• System Deployment
• ITCS in service on 45 miles
• ITCS installed on 66 miles
• Additional 21 miles activated after radio network
  upgrade (mid 2006)
• 30 locomotives equipped 18 GE P42 Genesis6
  Non-Powered Control Units6 Norfolk Southern
• Train Service
• 8 Amtrak trains per day
• 2 NS trains per week
• All passengers are using ITCS
• Speed Upgrade
• 79 MPH Limit due to signal system relieved by
  ITCS
• Pre-start of XINGs forgt79 MPH
• Extended braking distance awareness for gt79 MPH

MP 150
MP150 - 195 ITCS Territory Limits
ITCS in Operation
MP 195
MP 216
Niles
MP 195-216ITCS Installed but not yet operational
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Why ITCS in MichiganSignaling
Operation before ITCS
79 MPH (Max Speed)
Controlled by Amtrak Operating Rules, not
enforced by train control
30 MPH
Signals Spaced for worst case trains (freight)
Freight Braking distance from 79MPH to 30 MPH
Freight Braking distance from 30MPH to 0 MPH
Worst Case Braking distance from 79MPH to 0 MPH
(freight trains)
110 MPH (Max Speed)
Operation with ITCS Enforced by ITCS
79 MPH
30 MPH
Braking distance from 79MPH to 30 MPH
Braking distance from 30MPH to 0 MPH
Optimized Braking distance from 110MPH to 0 MPH
(passenger trains)
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Why ITCS in MichiganSignaling
Potential Future Operation with ITCS
110 MPH (Max Speed)
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Why ITCS in MichiganCrossings
Standard Crossing Operation without ITCS
Crossing Activates When Train Reaches Here
Crossing
79 MPH (Max Speed)
Approach Track Circuits
Distance to support 79 MPH max speed and 30
seconds of warning time
Crossing Operation with ITCS
Crossing
Train Radios Crossing, gets response at 110 MPH
Crossing Activates When Train Reaches Here
Approach Track Circuits
Distance to support 110 MPH max speed and 30
seconds of warning time
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Why ITCS in MichiganCrossings
Alternative to Crossing Operation without ITCS
Extend the track circuit to support new higher
speed
Crossing
Approach Track Circuits

• Cons
• Expensive infrastructure and re-test to
  changeboth labor and hardware
• Can be very complicated in cab-signal territory
  due to multiple track circuits in rail
• Cab signals on one frequency
• Crossing on another frequency
• Multiple crossings require multiple frequencies
• Exponentially more expensive as crossing density
  increases

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Why ITCS in Michigan?

• The Need for an Advanced Solution in Michigan
• Michigan DOT wanted high-speed passenger service
  (110 MPH) between Chicago and Detroit
• Anything above 79 MPH requires in-cab signaling
  and enforcement per FRA rule
• Conventional cab signaling would have worked,
  however
• It was over 1MM per mile to install because of
  the number of crossings
• The signaling would have been replaced/redistribu
  ted to ensure braking distance between signals at
  up to 110 MPH
• ITCS was conceived to
• More cost-effectively implement cab signaling
• Pre-start grade crossings over the radio network
  
• Deliver and enforce speed restrictions
  (permanent and temporary)
• Calculate train location and braking distance to
  remove signal layout speed restrictions
• FRA, Michigan DOT, Amtrak and GE partnered to
  develop a solution
• This line is the only line outside the northeast
  owned by Amtrak

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Michigan system in service for 6 years
Project Phases Phase 1 - Deployment -1998 Pha
se 2 - Full Service -2000 Phase 3 - Full
Service-ITCS Control -2001 Phase 4 - High Speed
(90 mph) -2002 Phase 5 High Speed (95 mph)
-2005 Phase 6 High Speed (110 mph) May 2006

• Overlay Features
• Civil Speed enforcement
• Enforcement of existing signal aspects
• Temporary Slow Order enforcement
• High speed crossing activation
• GE is completing Software Validation to support
  110 MPH May 2006

• Nearly 4 million hours of reliable, safe service
• 17,000 Train Missions through ITCS control
• Every train, Every day
• Norfolk Southern Local Trains Operate ITCS twice
  every week

Vitality required when changing the
operationhigher speed
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Every train operates ITCS in daily revenue
service
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What you see in Michigan
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What you see in Michigan

• ITCS Servers communicate to wayside devices,
  routes data to trains
• GE Interlocking controller with special software,
  communications and GPS
• ITCS Wayside Units monitor signals crossings
• Standard GE product (VHLC)
• ITCS Onboard all onboard processing, GPS,
  communication
• Standard GE Onboard Computer (Ultra-Cab II) with
  special software, communications and GPS

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ITCS Michigan Overview
Dispatch Center
GPS Satellites
Temporary Slow Orders and Wayside Status Messages
to Train
Temporary Slow Orders
ITCS Server Location
WIU Location
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Existing Michigan Signal System
Relay Control Point
VHLC Control Point
Track Circuits
Track Circuits
Track Circuits
Track Circuits
Track Circuits

• Existing Track Circuit-based signal system
• Train Integrity Function provided by existing
  Track Circuits, not ITCS
• ITCS added to report signal information into cab
  and activate crossings
• Advance start of crossings, and extended braking
  distance allows higher speed improved safety

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the ITCS features

• Signal Speed Enforcement wireless cab signal
  equivalent
• Speed Limit Enforcement overspeed protection
  through towns, around
• Grade Crossing Activation wireless activation
  with constant warning time and high speed capable
  with no crossing changes
• Grade Crossing Monitoring health and proper
  activation confirmation on board to approaching
  trains
• Work Area Restrictions temporary speed limits
  to protect workers and maintenance vehicles
• Safety Critical the backup to the engineer
  ensuring train stop and train separation
• Built on Existing Infrastructure use GEs VHLC,
  and UltraCab II to ensure reliability
• Overlay - onto existing track circuits to
  minimize investment and ensure broken rail
  detection
• Expandable, Flexible add territory or
  locomotives as traffic needs change

ITCS will move trains more efficiently over
existing track infrastructure
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ITCS Server
Servers collect wayside data, and talk to the
trains
MCP Radio Antenna (Talk to Train)
ITCS Server Hardware
GPS Antennas
ITCS RBC/Server
ITCS Server housed in existing infrastructure or
small add-on boxes
Spread Spectrum Radio (Talk to Wayside)
GPS Receivers
11 ITCS servers installed in Michigan
MCP Radio (Talk to Train)
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ITCS Display in the Cab
ITCS Display

• LEDs - Mode, Overspeed, Penalty
• Speed Limit, Actual Speed
• Target Window
• Target Speed, Time to Penalty
• Distance to Target
• Target Type
• Information Window
• Milepost
• Loco Type, Train Type

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Approaching a Stop Signal

• Speed Limit
• 110 MPH
• Current Speed
• 86 MPH
• Stop Signal
• Target Speed 0
• Time To Penalty
• 25 seconds to BEGIN applying the brakes
• Distance to Target
• 11060 feet to signal
• Home Signal
• HOMESIG
• Train Location
• MP 181.5
• Train Type
• F40 Locomotive, Passenger Train

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Beyond Michigan ITCSITCS China
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ITCS is being installed as a complete standalone
system in China
Development - 2004 Deployment - 2005 Full
Service - 2006 High Speed - 2007

• 1100 km of track in Western China
• ITCS will be the only control system,
• No signaling system in place
• Mountainous terrain and extreme conditions
  require highly reliable communications and
  equipment

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ITCS China Enhancement Overview

• Train knows position from GPS
• Train Reports block occupancy to ITCS over the
  radio
• No track circuits or physical wayside signals
  required
• Virtual Blocks can be smaller than braking
  distance (more blocks improve capacity)

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What can ITCS do?

• Increases Line Capacity
• Enables High Speed Trains
• Prevents Train Collisions
• Prevents Train Overspeed
• Protects Workers

Safety and productivity for upgrading signaled
and dark territory
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Questions?