Automatic train control (ATC) is a general class of train protection systems for railways that involves a speed control mechanism in response to external...

Automatic train protection (ATP) is the generic term for train protection systems that continually check that the speed of a train is compatible with the...

Automatic train stop or ATS is a system on a train that automatically stops a train if certain situations occur (unresponsive train operator, earthquake...

improving safety. A CBTC system is a "continuous, automatic train control system utilizing high-resolution train location determination, independent from track...

most. Alternatively, ATO can be defined as a subsystem within the automatic train control, which performs any or all of functions like programmed stopping...

Positive train control (PTC) is a family of automatic train protection systems deployed in the United States. Most of the United States' national rail...

no contact. The Great Western Railway in the UK introduced its 'automatic train control' system in the early years of the 20th century. Each distant signal...

Automatic Warning System (AWS) is a railway safety system invented and predominantly used in the United Kingdom. It provides a train driver with an audible...

The Chinese Train Control System (CTCS, Chinese: 中国列车控制系统) is a train control system used on railway lines in People's Republic of China. CTCS is similar...

Centralized traffic control (CTC) is a form of railway signalling that originated in North America. CTC consolidates train routing decisions that were...

blocks. The system controls the movement of trains between the blocks using automatic signals. ABS operation is designed to allow trains operating in the...

The European Train Control System (ETCS) is a train protection system designed to replace the many incompatible systems used by European railways, and...

Automatic Train Control (ATC) system. The train behind it was therefore commanded to proceed at 55 mph (89 km/h). The operator of the striking train applied...

signalling". Continuous systems are also more easily paired with Automatic Train Control technology, which can enforce speed restrictions based on information...

stopping errors and SPADs. TASC is also compatible with automatic train control (ATC) and automatic train operation (ATO), where in the latter case it acts...

Positive Train control is a type of automatic train protection system that prevents train-to-train collision, over speeding and unauthorized train movements...

ATB ('Automatic train control') is a Dutch train protection system first developed in the 1950s. Its installation was spurred by the Harmelen train disaster...

Advanced Train Administration and Communications System (ATACS) is an automatic train control (ATC) system developed by RTRI starting from 1995[citation...

purpose of TPWS is to stop a train by automatically initiating a brake demand, where TPWS track equipment is fitted, if the train has: passed a signal at danger...

extended from the locomotive cabside just before the train passed the exchange point and then automatically retracted afterwards. These enabled handover speeds...

The intermittent inductive automatic train stop (also referred to as IIATS or just automatic train stop or ATS) is a train protection system used in North...

moving block train protection system used in some parts of Japan Automatic train control (ATC), Automatic train protection (ATP), Automatic train stop (ATS)...

Metro, where it is responsible for the provision of rolling stock, Automatic Train Control, SCADA and other services; and signalling on LGV Est in France...

signalling control is the process by which control is exercised over train movements by way of railway signals and block systems to ensure that trains operate...

train control Converted from manual to automated operation Effective September 24, 2022, the entirety of Line 1 had been fully converted to automatic...

Automatic Train Signallisation) which is similar to RS4 Codici (comparable to Pulse Code Cab Signaling in the US). In the newer ABTC-M block control the...

Automatic Train Protection (ATP) is a method of beacon based railway cab signalling developed by British Rail. The system is only installed on the Great...

converting its fixed-block signal system to a moving block—based automatic train control (ATC) system on Line 1 Yonge–University at a cost of $562.3 million...

situations, a system of signals is used to control the passage of trains between the blocks. When a train enters a block, signals at both ends change...

passenger rolling stock, and the introduction of Automatic Train Control (ATC) in 1908. The local train pulled by a 'four-coupled bogie passenger engine'...