The ACD Network is a Train Collision prevention system patented by Konkan Railway Corporation Limited (A Public Sector Undertaking

of Ministry of Railways, Government of India).ACDs have knowledge embedded intelligence. They take inputs from GPS satellite system for position updates and network among themselves for exchanging information using their data radio modems to take decisions for timely auto-application of brakes to prevent dangerous 'collisions', thus forming a 'Raksha Kavach' (meaning a '(Train) Safety shield').

Some Statistics on IR
500 450 400 350 300 250 200 150 100 50 0 98-99 99-00 00-01 01-02 02-03 03-04 04-05 05-06 06-07 Total No of Accidents No of LC Gate Accidents No of fatalities at Lcs
Courtesy: Indian Railways

In the a.c.d the radio single from the consolation of Global Positioning System (G.P.S) satellite or received by GPS receiver through by antenna. This signal is sent to the command and control unit that is(C.C.U) to extract the parameters related to the movement of locomotive like

# # # # #

Latitude. Longitude. Speed. Angle. Date and time.

 Apart from the GPS receiver there is a

radio Trans receiver inside the acd. It transmits information such as:

# Identification no. # Speed

Location in terms of Latitude, Longitude, and status of it working with the help of sprats radio antenna.It also received the information being send by other acd and is send to the C.C.U for processing all the received information from the other acd and the data from the GPS receiver.

The final module in the system is the braking mechanism,which envisages the CCU to take a decision for applying either the normal brake or the automatic brake (ABU) on the locomotive as the situation required

GPS Satellites
Location Speed Course of Travel Time

UHF Data Radio Modem

Gate UNIT

GPS Receiver

Inter-ACD Radio Communication

Loco

Working of on-board System

 Driver Console
DRIVER'S CONSOLE
L 9 9 9 9 9 1 9 : 2 6

SOS

ACD-OK

ACD-M

KONKAN RAILWAY CORPORATION LTD.

Scenario :1.
ST 34 6 GATE APPROACH
19:26

2.
ST 34 6 GATE O C CUPIED 19:26


Route Kms = 1760, Stations = 202

1 Fixed ACDs
578

2 Mobile ACDs 567

82
133

Total

1360