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The European train security system ETCS brings more trains on the rail. ÖBB wants to reach goals in lowering the impact on the environment.

The European train security system ETCS brings more trains on the rail. ÖBB wants to reach goals in lowering the impact on the environment.
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28 / 12 / 2021

Like the autopilot monitors the plane, the security system keeps track of the train operations. It, Therefore, enables higher speed and shorter travel durations. Thanks to immediate information transmitting, the train gets all the benefits of the improved signaling.

ÖBB wants to reach goals that would boost their contribution to lowering the damages related to climate change and its decreasing. The European railway network grew from separate national networks with little more like than standard gauge. Notable differences include voltages, loading gauges, couplings, signaling, and control systems. By the end of the 1980s, there were 14 national standard train control systems in use across the EU, and the advantage of high-speed trains showed that signaling based on lineside signals is insufficient. ÖBB wants to reach goals that would boost their contribution to lowering the impact on the environment.

The usage of the ETCS in Austria started in 2001 with a level 1 test section on the Eastern Railway between Vienna and Nickelsdorf. By the end of 2005, the whole line between Vienna and Budapest had got equipped with ETCS L1.

The newly built stretches of the Western Railway between Vienna and St. Pölten and the New Lower Inn Valley Railway are equipped with ETCS L2, as is the North railway from Vienna to Bernhardstal.

As of 2019, a total of 484 km are operational under ETCS.

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