Predicting delays - linking a delayed incoming service with a delay to the outbound

[edwin_m]

No it isnt!
Its a right Royal pita, why it needs to stop us at a red when the sections in front are clear is one issue I have with it!
A R S E (Automatic Route Setting Equipment) is a more appropriate acronym for it.

Like so many computers it's a case of Garbage In Garbage Out. The ARS can only be as good as the operating rules it has been programmed to follow, and it's not allowed to adapt those rules itself to learn from mistakes. From what I remember (I was on the support team in the early days) it never worked properly at Waterloo anyway due to complications with interface to relay interlockings.

That is a different system and has the potential to be good.

Your faith in unproven new technology is touching - and clearly not shared by the likes of Roger Ford.

 

[Bald Rick]

Your faith in unproven new technology is touching - and clearly not shared by the likes of Roger Ford.

It is very much proven, and works very well in similar circumstances on numerous other railways around the world.

Uncle Roger's gripe is that NR is going with new (and not British) suppliers rather than using Delta Rail. A fair challenge. He has been known to be wrong (very) occasionally.

 

[edwin_m]

It is very much proven, and works very well in similar circumstances on numerous other railways around the world.

Including intensively-worked railways such as ours?

 

[carriageline]

Including intensively-worked railways such as ours?

It was recently tested in a "made up" office. Three suppliers made up a test workstation each, with a real life area, and signalled trains normally and even in degraded working. Worked fine


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[Bald Rick]

Well I would say the Tokyo suburban network is as intensively used as ours, yes. I have seen it working for real in Bologna, controlling an area and service roughly the same as the railways of the W Midlands. Seemed to work all right.

 

[Signal Head]

I thought that. It would require an output of ARS into TRUST and some clever stuff in TRUST itself, but it must be possible. Wonder what Delta rail would charge.

1 arm, plus 1 leg, and a whole load of noughts.