Method for operating a railway safety system, and railway safety system

US9493176B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Siemens Aktiengesellschaft · DE

Inventors

• Robert Busse · Delbrück, DE
• Thomas Kohlmeyer · Kirchhorst, DE
• Christoph Kutschera · Bad Harzburg, DE
• Dominik Lüthe · Salzgitter, DE
• Jens-Harro Oechsner · Wolfenbüttel, DE
• Thomas Schmidt · Braunschweig, DE
• Michael Schulze · Temecula, US
• Wolfgang Windolf · Bad Schandau, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Jun 25, 2012
• Grant date: Nov 15, 2016
• Expiry date: Feb 2, 2033

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B61L29/32
• WIPO field: Transport
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

A method operates a railway safety system having at least one trackside device while taking into account a measured velocity value recorded when the rail vehicle drives into a switch-on section of the railway safety system. In order to minimize the closing times for a level crossing by such a method, the measured velocity value is used as the basis for checking whether a correction time for forwarding a signal from the one trackside device to an associated railway safety assembly is to be set according to the measured velocity value when the rail vehicle drives into the switch-on section. Thereafter, a set correction time is checked to determine if the set correction time should remain effective according to at least one further influencing variable of the rail vehicle that determines the travel time. A railway safety system for carrying out the method is also provided.