Design of a Hardware and Software based Test Bed for Railway Signalization Systems*

It is vital that an interlocking system is thoroughly tested before its deployment. The conduction of the tests of an interlocking system on the real field is cumbersome and expensive. It is necessary that fast and efficient methods are utilized to test the hardware and the software of interlocking systems before its final installation. In this manuscript, the design of hardware and software based test beds for a railway signalization system is presented.