Re: ARTC Communications Based Safeworking System

["f.u.i.t.b.e.t" <fuitbet@yahoo.com.au>]

The only mistake made in Victoria was the one not to persue the full
introduction of D.I.C.E............but then there was the train
controllers,signallers etc up in arms about hence put into the too hard
basket!!!
"Maurie Daly" <mauried@tpg.com.au> wrote in message
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> On Fri, 26 Jan 2001 21:25:32 +1100, "B."
> <gunzel412@dingoblue.gunzel.net.au> wrote:
>
> >http://216.87.179.125/
> >
> >Hmmm........
> >
> >--
> >B.
> >
> >Email - gunzel412 at dingoblue dot net dot au
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> Yes , Hmmm indeed.
> I really get depressed when I read these sorts of specifications.
> It seems that ARTC ,having learned nothing from Vlines failed attempts
> to introduce ASW ,are hell bent on doing the same thing.
>
> Its phrases like this one that really are amazing.
>
>
>
>            Overview: The nature
>            of the Australian rail
>            network is such that
>            there are economies
>            in placing equipment
>            on trains wherever
>            possible rather than
>            trackside. ARTC has
>            therefore
>            commenced a
>            process of
>            consultation with
>            interstate operators
>            to understand the opportunities and constraints that may
> affect them.
> ------------------------------------------------
> Sorry for the formatting problem.
>
> The above is code for
> "We would much rather see most of the infrastructure needed being
> installed in the locomotives rather than trackside.
>
> This of course means that the poor struggling rail operator has to
> pick up a considerable part of the costs of ARTCs new scheme.
>
> We already have far more incompatible requirements now for radios /
> VDUs etc in locomotives .
> The last thing rail operators now need is yet another unique loco
> based safeworking system.
>
> MD
>