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Five operating control centres for the rail network operated by OBB Infrastructure (Austria) (2017)

This paper was originally published in "Signal & Draht" in early 2016, and was reproduced with permission in IRSE NEWS April 2017.

The lines comprising the Austrian railway network have a total length of around 5500 kilometres. The network manager, ÖBB Infrastructure, is in the process of implementing a concept to establish five operating control centres. The area covered is being expanded in stages and currently is around 1200+ kilometres of lines in various parts of the country. The final state envisaged by the plan is to have 3300 km of lines managed from the five operating control centres. The first of these new operating control centres entered service in Innsbruck in October 2008, having taken only three years to construct, with an initial ten dispatching locations controlled remotely from it.

All five operating control centres are now in service, located in Innsbruck, Salzburg, Vienna, Villach and Linz. This represents a big step towards the goal of having a single operating and dispatching system throughout Austria – an idea that was actually first launched back in the 1980s. ÖBB Infrastructure regards the five operating control centres as a crucial component in ensuring that it is able to implement the agreed nationwide ‘target network 2025+’ (‘Zielnetz 2025+’), the aim of which is to be able to provide 30 % more trains a day (up from 6400 to 9000), to carry more passengers (up from 235 million a year to 300 million) and to run more train-kilometres (up from 143 million a year to 198 million). It is intended to
complete the control centre strategy in its entirety by 2028.

Author(s):Richard Sagner and Gerhard Haipl (ÖBB Infrastruktur AG, Austria)
Keywords:traffic management;control centre; integration;
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