DOI: 10.57806/sq41ntua
title: ATOSenseData: Train Driver Performance Measurements in Simulator from the ATO-Sense Project

description: ATOSenseData is a dataset of human train driver performance measurements in a simulator. The dataset was generated as part of the DZSF-funded project titled ATO-Sense: Functional Requirements of the Sensors and Logic of an ATO Unit (concluding report available on the DZSF website). The project consortium consisted of BBI (TU Berlin), DLR Braunschweig, Siemens Mobility and DB Systemtechnik. The fundamental task for the train drivers was to detect visual stimuli on railway tracks (using two different simulation environments). It contains a total of 287 recorded human decisions from 18 train drivers in the BBI study and 424 recorded human decisions from 25 train drivers in the DLR study. In addition to the processed data, the dataset also contains raw data of the measurements performed using both simulation environments. For more information and relevant links, please refer to the alternate description on FID-move.
description: ![Collage of the simulation environments used for the dataset](https://www.dzsf.bund.de/DZSF/DE/DZSF_Intern/Bilder_ATOSenseData/02_Collage.png?__blob=normal&v=4)
*Source: own collage based on images from the project report.*

ATOSenseData is a dataset of human train driver performance measurements in a simulator. The task was to detect visual stimuli on the tracks. It was created as part of a DZSF project [ATO Sense](https://www.dzsf.bund.de/SharedDocs/Standardartikel/DZSF/Projekte/Projekt_29_ATO.html;jsessionid=9CC980D7968EFC36E1E41093D93714E3.live21324?nn=2208160#doc2744192bodyText2). [Bahnbetrieb und Infrastruktur (BBI) at the TU Berlin](https://www.tu.berlin/bbi) in cooperation with the [German Aerospace Center (DLR)](https://www.dlr.de/en), [Siemens Mobility](https://www.mobility.siemens.com/de/en.html) and [DB Systemtechnik](https://www.db-systemtechnik.de/dbst-en) constituted the project consortium. It contains a total of [424 recorded human decisions](https://data.fid-move.de/dataset/atosensedata/resource/3c49af97-b4f7-4deb-9f00-ee2b304351e1) from 25 train drivers in the DLR study and [287 recorded human decisions](https://data.fid-move.de/dataset/atosensedata/resource/c0b4cc34-48f5-4b82-a6ea-1f966d0008d4) from 18 train drivers in the BBI study. In addition to the cleansed data, this dataset also contains [raw data of the measurements by DLR](https://data.fid-move.de/dataset/atosensedata/resource/3678ad6d-4058-4720-94ea-b745cd870ccd) and [raw data of the measurements by BBI](https://data.fid-move.de/dataset/atosensedata/resource/36fdd285-66a9-4b2f-be5d-2cf9db5823ad).

# Code Repository

The scripts used for parsing and plotting the data in the IAVVC paper can be found in the official open**Code** repository [here.](https://gitlab.opencode.de/dzsf/dzsf-fachbereich-85/ato/atosense)

# Supplementing Literature

* R. Tagiew and P. Balaji, ["Measuring Train Driver Performance as Key to Approval of Driverless Trains"](https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.19735), arXiv, 2025.

* B. Thomas-Friedrich, E. Bosch, B. Cogan, H. Wasle, and A. Naumann, [“Menschliche Wahrnehmung als Maßstab für zukünftige ATO-Systeme,”](https://eurailpress-archiv.de/SingleView.aspx?show=5623718) EI - DER EISENBAHNINGENIEUR, September 2023.

![Logos](https://www.dzsf.bund.de/DZSF/DE/DZSF_Intern/Bilder_ATOSenseData/01_Logos.png;jsessionid=9990D96E8DB5ACD088B9BCD92E7551E7.live11312?__blob=normal&v=2)