Towards the Modelling of European Railway System Architecture
Marc Sango, Pierre-Étienne Gautier, Christophe Cheron · Transportation research procedia · 2023
To master the increasing complexity of railway system, many European railway architecture initiatives are moving towards the application of Model Based System Engineering (MBSE) at overall railway system level or subsystems levels. Most of these initiatives apply the MBSE in their specific scopes. There is no common or unified MBSE methodology and related domain modelling language. Railway domain experts are usually not familiar with general-purpose modelling languages such as UML/SysML and need to collaborate with modelling experts to construct the future digital model of European railway system reference architecture. This paper presents a MBSE methodology and unified modelling language for the railway domain. The methodology is developed in LinX4Rail project, and the domain specific modelling language is used to model the preliminary description of LinX4Rail Architecture.