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The basic purpose of railway traffic control devices is to ensure a high level of safety of moving trains on the railway network. The railway traffic control devices often work in difficult environmental conditions and are exposed to external interference. These circumstances require continuous analysis of the state of the railway traffic control system. With time, the system's technical condition deteriorates. When its technical condition is not satisfactory it is necessary to operate it and renew its state of use. The rational implementation of exploitation tasks of the railway traffic control system allows the introduction of mathematical modeling methods into exploitation tests. Using the mathematical model of the exploitation process of the railway traffic control system, it is possible to forecast e.g. reliability indicators of its individual objects. Knowledge of exploitation parameters should be used in making decisions in the process of managing the exploitation of the railway traffic control devices.

The original RailML specification comes from 2002 and was defined using XML. Files in the RailML standard can be used for storing and exchanging data between numerous interfaces of railway ICT systems. Current version 2.4 includes rolling stock and railway traffic management, timetables, passenger information as well as booking and selling tickets. In the upcoming version of the RailML 3.1 standard, the subcheme is included, which is intended for the description of railway interlocking systems. In addition, compliance with the object-oriented, abstract data model for the railway infrastructure, defined in the UIC IRS 30100 standard (RailTopo-Model, RTM), will be ensured. In the paper, the authors discuss the current state of RailML and its perspective. Particular attention is paid to the use of RailML for the description of railway interlocking systems. The authors also present their proprietary software which allow to edit, visualize and verify RailML files.

The article presents the analysis of the current technical condition of railway traffic control devices. Their technical condition, method of exploitation and maintenance have a significant impact both on the safety, efficiency of railway transport and the process of train movements on railway lines in Poland.