Brighton Park Crossing - Heavy Traffic

Heavy Traffic

In terms of physical freight and passenger rail loading, Brighton Park carries a heavy amount of traffic, approximately 3.5 trains every hour (as of the year 2009.) The amount of traffic might be expected to increase over time as more and more cargo is transported via rail instead of via highway trucking and inter-coastal waterways as the cost of fuel increases and as the efficiency of locomotive engines increase.

While rail traffic through Brighton Park is heavy, the communications traffic among the vital systems providing the automation is also quite heavy.

Vital session ATCS messages conveyed between GEO devices constitute hundreds of messages every second. Overlaid on the vital sessioning is additional message traffic for monitoring, remote log retrieval, command and control, and other types of messages, all of which must be created, transmitted, received, and handled quickly so that messages are not permitted to become stale.