This is one of several workplaces in the Operations Center East (BZ Ost) for the control of the railway traffic in the region of Winterthur. In full operation during the day, six such places are busy with train dispatchers, another place for the customer information on the stations and two further places for the supervisor and his assistant.
On the left the device for telephony, intercom and radio, then 6 "Iltis" (Integriertes Leit- und Informationssystem/Integrated guidance and Infosystem from Siemens) screens for the operation (remote control) of the signal boxes with the mouse. On the right 4 large screens for information systems such as RCS (Rail Control System), an online graphical timetable or for the ALEA (alarm and incident assistant, which optimally processes information flows in cases of disruption).
In the BZ East in Zurich Airport, the SBB network of the eastern part of Switzerland (about 1/3 of the whole network) is controlled and monitored, when completed next year in 8 sectors with a total of about 480 employees. Similar operations centers there are or are under construction in Olten, Lausanne and Pollegio and in Spiez (BLS) for the Lötschberg axis. The Südostbahn has a smaller operations center for her network in Herisau.
