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Rail Transportation
Today's railway systems and software developers must create agile, maintainable, and energy-efficient applications while meeting stringent certification requirements. They need to increase rail and rolling stock capacity through better signalling, automated train control and improved efficiency. This is a complicated task that requires the correct rail automation tools.
Production-Proven International Success
Esterel Technologies provides production proven, model-based development solutions for critical systems and software engineers that reduce cost, risk, and time-to-certification. Esterel Technologies' industry leading products have been certified by TÜV SÜD, EBA and CERTIFER for EN 50128 to SIL 3/4.
Our rail customers include Alstom Transportation, Ansaldo STS, AREVA TA, CASCO, Hollysys, Invensys Rail, Kyosan, NIIAS, POSCON , RATP, Siemens Mobility and Thales Rail Signaling Systems, to name just a few.
SCADE Solution Benefits
- Improves communication among system/software teams, customers, suppliers and certification authorities
- Enables process agility
- Improves long-term maintainability of applications
- Ensures documentation quality and accuracy
- Enables early detection of design flaws
- Reduces development and verification costs
- Ensures code quality and safety
- Reduces risk, time, and cost of EN 50128 Certification
Rail transportation applications developed using the SCADE product family include:
- Automatic Train Control and Protection Systems:
- ETCS & CBTC
- Emergency braking
- Overspeed protection
- Vehicle speed control
- ATP/ATO
- Satellite-based locomotive control
- On-board displays (DMI)
- Interlockings
- Doors opening and departure interlocks
- Train detection systems (Axle counters)
- Level crossing protection
- Control Centers: Fault reporting and Interlocking
- Displays
Rail Programs Include:
- Brazil
- Sao Paulo subway
- China
- Nanjing subway Line 2
- Beijing subway Changping Line
- France
- French Railways (RFF) - entire network
- Paris subway
- Lyon subway
- Marseille subway
- Hong Kong
- Hong Kong subway
- Porto subway
- Russian Railways (RZD)
- Singapore subway
- Taipei subway
- Ankara subway
- British Rail (Cambrian and Ester lines)
- Eurostar


