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The Number One Lesson for CBTC

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Recently, I presented at a conference in Sydney, Australia. Which was special because I was nearly 4,000 kilometres away from the conference venue when I did this presentation. The wonders of the virtual world!

That presentation was titled “Australia’s CBTC Journey”, but I think the content was relevant to any country, or better city, that introduces CBTC. Since most, if not all, of you readers probably did not attend that conference in Sydney, this content will be novel to you when I recap it here. I hope you will enjoy it and, ideally, learn a thing or two from it.

I started with some key points explaining what CBTC is. The acronym stands for Communications-Based Train Control. It is a technology for signalling and train control, which can be considered the “gold standard” for signalling capacity and performance, meaning that no other global mainstream technology can achieve the capacity and performance that CBTC can provide. CBTC is used by way over 100 metro railways around the world. It is not really a new technology since the first CBTC came into service as early as 1985, in Toronto, Canada. Interestingly, the first standards for CBTC were published very much later, in 1999 by the IEEE, the North American standardisation body, and in 2006 by its European counterpart IEC.

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