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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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)
transport markets. It is active in the fields of passenger transportation, signaling, and locomotives, producing high-speed, suburban, regional and urban trains...
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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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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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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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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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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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Train protection system (section Cab signaling)
nearly automatically. European Train Control System (Heavy rail) Communications-based train control (Rapid Transit) By country/region Australia - Queensland...
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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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Riverside and on the running lines of some tram museums. In Malaysia, signaling token signs are still used on the KTM East Coast Line between Gemas and...
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Level crossing (redirect from Crossing signal)
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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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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trains. Japanese signalling was initially based on British railway signalling practice, and Japanese railway signalling continues to be based on the UK route...
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Pulse code cab signaling is a form of cab signaling technology developed in the United States by the Union Switch and Signal corporation for the Pennsylvania...
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Centralized traffic control (category Railway signalling block systems)
authorize a train to proceed or stop. Local signaling logic will ultimately determine the exact signal to display based on track occupancy status ahead and the...
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Siemens Mobility (category Companies based in Berlin)
MX3000 Maglev Transrapid (Shanghai) Railway Signalling Trainguard MT - a signalling block systems based on CBTC Digital Services Data Capture Unit (DCU)...
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Level crossing signals are electronic warning devices for road vehicles at railroad level crossings. Level crossings can be operated in various ways....
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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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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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Automatic Warning System (section AWS at signals)
vehicles against overrunning of signals", published 25 October 1932 US 843550, Frank Wyatt Prentice, "Electric Signaling System", published 5 February...
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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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