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British Rail has embarked on a 3-year effort to test and select an automatic train protection (ATP) system for national implementation beginning in 1992. Two systems are being pilot tested--one on a high-speed mainline, the other on a suburban railway. For economic reasons, both give intermittent ATP coverage with information transmitted at each signal, rather than continuously as with some metro or high-speed applications in continental Europe. Whichever system is chosen, it must be possible to fit the equipment to a wide variety of vehicles and lineside signaling with minimum disturbance to existing equipment. British Rail plans to finalize its national ATP specification late in 1991 and is committed to a 10-year installation program. Although the program will require considerable investment, British Rail expects the ATP system to yield a number of benefits besides reversing the rail system's rising signals-passed-at-danger (SPADs) statistics.

This paper appears in Transportation Research Record No. 1314, Advanced Train Control Systems 1991: Proceedings of a Symposium, June 17-19, 1991, Denver, Colorado. Distribution, posting, or copying of this PDF is strictly prohibited without written permission of the Transportation Research Board of the National Academy of Sciences. Unless otherwise indicated, all materials in this PDF are copyrighted by the National Academy of Sciences. Copyright © National Academy of Sciences. All rights reserved

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Automatic train protection; Technology

British Rail

United Kingdom

Design; Highways; Railroads

TRIS, TRB

Apr 30 1992 12:00AM

• ADVANCED ATP SYSTEM FOR IMPROVING TRAIN TRAFFIC DENSITY AND CONTROL EFFICIENCY
• ADVANCED TRAIN CONTROL SYSTEMS CONTROL FLOW DEVELOPMENT AND VALIDATION
• ADVANCES IN FLAT PANEL DISPLAY TECHNOLOGY AND APPLICABILITY TO ATCS ON-BOARD TERMINALS
• ASTREE: A GLOBAL COMMAND, CONTROL, AND COMMUNICATION SYSTEM
• ATCS AT CP RAIL--STEADY AND MEASURED
• AUSTRAC: THE AUSTRALIAN ATCS
• Decision Support System for Train Dispatching: An Optimization-Based Methodology
• DEVELOPMENT OF A WAYSIDE DETECTOR OPEN COMMUNICATION STANDARD
• ESSENTIAL ELEMENTS OF SYSTEM INTEGRATION
• IMPROVEMENT OF ATCS OPERATIONAL SAFETY AND EFFICIENCY THROUGH HUMAN FACTORS APPLICATIONS
• INTEGRATION OF ATCS WITH MIS
• MANAGEMENT AND INFORMATION SYSTEMS COMPONENTS OF SUCCESSFUL ATCS
• MICROPROCESSOR DIAGNOSTIC SYSTEM FOR HEAVY-HAUL TRAINS IN ACTUAL OPERATION
• MIGRATION FROM CONVENTIONAL SIGNALING TO NEXT-GENERATION TRAIN CONTROL
• OPERATION CONTROL AND SIGNALING SYSTEM FOR HIGH-SPEED LINES
• PERFORMANCE AND CAPACITY ANALYSIS OF AN OPERATING ATCS COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM
• PILOT SYSTEM OF CARAT ON THE SANYO SHINKANSEN LINE
• PROTOTYPE AND TEST ENVIRONMENT FOR ATCS DATA COMMUNICATIONS
• RAILROAD OPERATION USING THE ADVANCED TRAIN CONTROL SYSTEM
• REALIZING BENEFITS FROM ATCS USING A MOTIVE POWER INFORMATION AND MANAGEMENT SUPPORT SYSTEM
• TRAIN CONTROL ON FRENCH RAILROADS
• UIC EUROPEAN TRAIN CONTROL SYSTEM
• VALUE OF HIGH-QUALITY SERVICE: HOW SHOULD THE ARES-EQUIPPED RAILROAD OPERATE?
• VERIFICATION AND VALIDATION FOR ADVANCED TRAIN CONTROL SYSTEMS