Principles of Communications Based Train Control (CBTC) Signalling Course

Signalling Design Courses

Duration	5 days
Location	Any
Delegates Maximum	10

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Aim

The course will enable a railway signal engineer to identify the key properties of a CBTC control system and how this can solve network capacity and equipment count issues. Some specific solutions will be examined.

Outline

Station and junction capacity bottlenecks on metro railways
Traditional solutions to the capacity bottleneck
Infrastructure cost and the drive to reduce equipment count
How CBTC solves the above problems
Methods of train positioning
Methods of movement authority transmission
ATP and ATO functions
ATO Grades of Automation
Case studies of different proprietary CBTC solutions
Proprietary CBTC compared with 'open source' ETCS

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