Jakub has been UNISIG’s Braking Curves Task Force Leader, leading a working group that aims at improving the ETCS Braking curves on a generic (EU) level since 2020. Currently, he is also the lead of UNISIG’s Technical Authority, which jointly with the European Union Agency for Railways (ERA) and the ERTMS Users’ Group maintains and develops the ERTMS technical specifications, called the Super Group. He has been working at AŽD Praha in the field of ERTMS since 2006; first at a project level, 5 years later moving to the generic (EU) level. Jakub is a member of IRSE and holds a PhD in Electrical Engineering in Transport, focussing on Signalling Systems (Faculty of Transport Engineering, University of Pardubice).

How can ETCS braking curves be adapted to a more realistic behaviour of the rolling stock? (Workshop #10b)

Workshop #10b on generic changes of ETCS Braking curves to better reflect real train behaviour.  The focus will be given on both changes: the ones already performed and finalised for Baseline 4 Release 1 (System Version 3.0) in the CCS TSI 2023 as well as the ones already identified and logged into the ERTMS Change Requests’ database. Such changes will be described, including videos/simulations, and shortly discussed with the audience.