MPB
MPB is designed for traffic safety assurance on low-density sections and is functional analogue of semi-automatic relay block system.
MPB is small-sized, cost-effective maintenance. It executes the following range of functions:
- semi-automatic block functions supplemented by automatic control of train arrival in full. Control of railway haul vacancy can be performed both by means of in-built facilities (axle counting method using ESSO wayside equipment) and external control of track sections;
- arrangement of automatic block-post on the railway haul. Dependence logic for block-post is implemented by MPB controllers module not requiring any changes in hardware or software nodes.
- Basic advantage of MPB over relay analogues is the possibility of block-signals transmission not only via physical lines but also using digital transmission systems as VF-channel multiplexing equipment, fiber-optic lines or radio-channel.
- System ensures automatic redundancy of communication channels.
MPB structure
- two similar subsets (controllers module), located on adjacent to the railway haul stations;
- ESSO wayside equipment (when railway haul is controlled using axle counting method).
Scheme
Block of controllers
- supply voltage, DC: 12V or 24V;
- supply voltage, AC: 16 V;
- power consumption: not over 5 VA;
- overall sizes: 310х121х266 mm;
- operating temperature range: -60..+85°С;
- for the connection with digital signalling systems interface RS232/485 is provided using open protocol MODBUS.
MPB controllers module
Cost-efficiency
- reduction of expenses on capital construction, installation and maintenance of tower devices and relays;
- usage of transmission systems over radio-channel enables to exclude physical line, thereby reduce operational costs and losses due to steal of copper-containing materials;
- conversion of sections equipped with MPB on CTC control.