Universidad
Politécnica de Madrid

This Master's Degree is proposed in view of the obvious lack of technologists in railway technology specialised in the two main technological subsystems of railway installations: on the one hand, energy supply and management in railway operation and exploitation and, on the other, train control, which incorporates the components of detection, protection, traffic management and train control as a basic fundamental component of railway safety.

All this for the different modes of rail-guided transport (urban, metropolitan and rail) and transport automation models, from point protection to continuous systems such as CBTC and ERTMS and energy efficiency towards the SMART GRID, and always considering as the backbone of this technological column the necessary aspects for the certification of systems, common safety methods and innovative challenges such as the application of artificial intelligence, digitalisation, smart manufacturing and the future of rail transport in global mobility such as the use of POD platform or the HYPERLOOP.

The aim of this course will be to bring the student closer to the technological components to conceive a safe integration of these technologies of railway facilities throughout their life cycle, allowing to acquire knowledge to design the concept of the facility against the requirements of railway operation, to know the methods and practices for its use differentiated to the mode of transport, its transfer to the public domain and the maintenance of the same, without losing sight of innovation and the challenges identified in the Horizon 2030 and 2050 on the pillars of digitisation, energy efficiency and sustainability of the system.

Module 1.- General concepts of railway technology

Module 2.- The guided transport models

Module 3.- Control-command and signalling subsystems

Module 4.- Energy subsystem

Module 5.- Communications in railway systems

Module 6.- Project management

Module 7.- Intrinsic and industrial safety

Module 8.- Maintenance of the Railway Installations

Module 9.- Digitalization

Module 10.- The future of the guided transport

Module 11.- Laboratories

Module 12.- Master Thesis