A Railway Simulation Landscape Creation Tool Chain considering OpenStreetMap Geo Data

Kurzfassung

This paper presents a tool chain with which various geo data from the free available geo data base OpenStreetMap (OSM) can be used as input for modelling a railway line to be used in a railway driver’s cab simulation. Based on the Vires simulation software VirtualTestDrive and the so called SimWorld data base that has been developed by the Automotive department of the DLR Institute of Transportation Systems, this tool chain enables the fusion of heterogeneous data from different data sources. Further, it is analysed, which data are implicitly or explicitly described in the OSM data base. It is shown that elementary components of a railway simulation landscape including the railway track network as well as environment information can be extracted from these open data.