• Interoperable Communications Based Signaling (ICBS) is an initiative backed by the Federal Railroad Administration to enhance interoperability and signaling...
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    Interoperability is a characteristic of a product or system to work with other products or systems. While the term was initially defined for information...
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    Communications-based train control (CBTC) is a railway signaling system that uses telecommunications between the train and track equipment for traffic...
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    national standards and allows them to be fully interoperable with a few modifications. All cab signalling systems must have a continuous in-cab indication...
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    Moreover, the name of the signaling center itself may not be employed operationally in preference to the name of individual signaling workstations. This is...
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    signaling – Railroad communications system Gantry Highball Signal – Historic railroad signal in Delmar, Delaware, US North American railroad signals Railway...
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    Automatic block signaling (ABS), spelled automatic block signalling or called track circuit block (TCB) in the UK, is a railroad communications system that...
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    Hyundai Rotem (category Railway signalling manufacturers)
    Korea) obtained the design certification of Technical Specification for Interoperability (TSI), which paved the way for Hyundai Rotem into the European high-speed...
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    Railway signalling (BE), or railroad signaling (AE), is a system used to control the movement of railway traffic. Trains move on fixed rails, making them...
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    Alstom (category Railway signalling manufacturers)
    It is active in the fields of passenger transportation, rail services, signaling, and locomotives, producing high-speed, suburban, regional and urban trains...
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  • The Secure Communications Interoperability Protocol (SCIP) is a US standard for secure voice and data communication, for circuit-switched one-to-one connections...
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    American railroad signals generally fall into the category of multi-headed electrically lit units displaying speed-based or weak route signaling.[citation needed]...
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  • of the signaling system. More recently, CBTC systems have been deployed on mainline railroads, and Interoperable Communications Based Signaling (ICBS)...
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    Railway semaphore signals are an early form of fixed railway signals. The semaphore system involves signals that display their different indications to...
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    Automatic block signaling uses a series of automated signals, normally lights or flags, that change their display, or aspect, based on the movement of...
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    Interlocking (category Railway signalling control)
    missing publisher (link) "Signaling and Interlocking On New Line of New York Subways". Railway Signaling and Communications. Simmons-Boardman Publishing...
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  • Progress Rail (category Companies based in Albertville, Alabama)
    makers of signal equipment, Coast to Coast Signal Engineering and C&S Signaling, as well as a General Electric subsidiary involved in the signal industry;...
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    Positive train control (category Railway signalling block systems)
    Transportation, U.S. Senate, Government Accountability Office "Communications-Based Signaling (CBS) – Vital PTC", Paper presented at AREMA C&S Technical Conference...
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  • means of signalling are used: Signal flags Hand-held signal lamps Signal whistle Arm signals Fixed light signals Fixed sound signals Signal signs Orientation...
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    The application of railway signals on a rail layout is determined by various factors, principally the location of points of potential conflict, as well...
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    question. Aircraft runways sometimes cross roads or rail lines, and require signaling to avoid collisions. Sydney Airport had a runway crossing, when that runway...
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    compatible with the permitted speed allowed by signalling, including automatic stop at certain signal aspects. If it is not, ATP activates an emergency...
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    Switch & Signal (commonly referred to as US&S) was an American company based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, which focused on railway signaling equipment...
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  • the H/V system, was created based on two key types of signal. However, Bavaria was permitted to use its own designs of signal, with slightly different meanings...
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  • Bombardier Transportation (category Railway signalling manufacturers)
    Bombardier Transportation Systems Limited, Bombardier NUG Propulsion and Signaling Systems, Shentong Bombardier (Shanghai) Rail Transit Vehicle Maintenance...
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    vehicles against overrunning of signals", published 25 October 1932  US 843550, Frank Wyatt Prentice, "Electric Signaling System", published 5 February...
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    and shunting signals. Although British railway operation is based on the block principle whereby only one train is allowed in a signal section, there...
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    Railway Signal Company (GRS) was an American manufacturing company located in the Rochester, New York area. GRS was focused on railway signaling equipment...
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    An axle counter is a system used in railway signalling to detect the clear or occupied status of a specified section of track. The system generally consists...
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    Foreman of Signals – trained in the installation, maintenance, repair and interoperability of military tactical/strategic communications assets; Foreman...
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