Joelle Aoun PhD defence on "Impact Assessment of Train-Centric Rail Signalling Technologies"

6th October 2023

Joelle Aoun successfully defended her PhD thesis on the "Impact Assessment of Train-Centric Rail Signalling Technologies".

The railway industry aims at increasing railway capacity by developing new generations of train-centric signalling such as Moving Block and Virtual Coupling. These railway technologies entail several implications on different criteria related to performance, safety and feasibility. The various challenges of Virtual Coupling need to be addressed to understand whether this technology is worth implementing in real life for different market segments. This thesis provides an overall assessment of the train-centric signalling technologies by proposing several frameworks to tackle different aspects related to modelling, assessment and roadmapping.

The PhD dissertation can be downloaded here.