How does ERTMS Become Global Rail Signalling Standard?
How does ERTMS Become Global Rail Signalling Standard?
Discover how the European Railway Traffic Management System (ERTMS) has revolutionized train control and signaling across Europe, paving the way for global adoption. This video dives deep into the origins, principles, and challenges of implementing this groundbreaking system.
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Strange that on your maps Serbia is absorbed as part of Bulgaria. I don't think they would agree
Hi. What kind of solutions do you implement for mode loss, wi-fi loss and localization errors that occur in trains?
I really enjoyed this video. Hope that South Africa can at some time in the future have a similar train control system.
ERTMS is overly expensive and has been shown to have a weakness of single-point failures, necessitating operations to revert to lower levels of safety. Cost and reliability are two reasons why several countries have not yet widely implemented ERTS. It's interesting to note that ERTMS has not been implemented in US, Canada or Mexico, where existing ATC/ATP systems are in wide use, and PTC (Positive Train Control) is being implemented in some areas.
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ERTMS implementation across Europe is way behind, and is going way too slowly. When Poland finally finishes expanding the GSM-R network (which already is an old and outdated system, since it's the only still maintained GSM network. Standard GSM hasn't been used/maintained in years), it will have to be replaced by FRMCS.
21:27 India 🇮🇳 won't be included as well because we developed Kavach 2.0 System similar to ETCS-2 but its adoption is slow. Although government has decided to install it in Mission Mode so there is still hope.
0:32 i see bulgaria has gotten some territorial expanses towards serbia 😂
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Very interesting! Thank you!
TVM/KVB is France and Signum/ZUB is Switzerland 🙂
Thanks for the vid. Very informative. Installing ETCS on such a big scale is going to be a difficult task. Keep up the good work👍
10:55 Swiss railways are virtually fully equipped with ETCS everywhere, and some lines are equipped with L2. Initially the aim was to install L2 everywhere, but we've come to realise that L2 does not provide significant advantages over external signals in conventional speed areas, worse, it presents a major disadvantage in its dependency on the RBC connection, which can lead to more disruptions. Therefore the objective has been abandoned and only stretches of track with very outdated signalling (double tracked lines not capable of handling traffic both ways) will be equipped with L2 since the investment is pretty much equal to improving the external signalling. The only L2 in conventional areas is in the Lausanne – Villeneuve stretch, and since the following stretch towards St Maurice is outdated, it is likely to be the only one in the coming future to be equipped with L2
0:17 Wasn't expecting to see a Sydney Trains graphic in this video haha
And as with many Eu "standards" its a complete and utterly convoluted mess.
It just brings more problems with it than it set out to solve.
I would love to se a even more deep dive. Like What components does it use, how good are the interface defining between devices and subsystems.
And when it came to the UK it became non standard by having different coloured knobs in different places. So much for interoperability and standardisation. BREXIT was an escape for the UK to continue with the non fail safe and much cheaper ? TPWS
It’s certainly interesting to see it being rolled out in NZ. Auckland had L1 put in a decade or so ago and my home city of Wellington is in the midst of having L2 put in. It’s very likely that over the years it will be rolled out to the rest of the country as parts of the system are resignalled.
10:20 Huh? Lineside signals are optional under level 1 too. For example line 2 in Belgium doesn't have signals, just 'repères', and is level 1. When signals are left in place under level 1, ETCS sometimes gives different information to the driver, either more or less limiting.
Fun video…but, Rail tech designs were mastered with max love in the 1990s and with time we easily overlay any technical updates without major centralized overhauls using design idea basics from 70s into 90s. Trains talking to xings and signals talking to trains is not needed everywhere as you noted, but I think complete understanding of best operating rules will be the king of efficiency not removing the "un-just" wayside signals. Wayside signals help the railway and public, not hinder it.
I worked with ERTMS 25 years ago. It's ridiculous how complicated this standard is. A simpler standard with possibility to negotiate up to a more advanced protocol shold have been made.
ETCS is really becoming a global standard I remember hearing recently that GO transit here in Toronto under the guidance of DB and I think Alstom want to implement ETCS on the system which level? I have no idea but I’m glad that better safety is in the cards thanks UNISIG.
BTW, Thales sold it's GTS sector to Hitachi so no more Thales in railway signalling actually.
You could totally make a video on the migration from GSM-R to FRMCS. There is a lot of information publicly available from the UIC FRMCS website.
The list with countries adaption is so wrong. Norway has not adapted it AT ALL. It need to be looked at again
It's not often I wish TTS was used.
I'm not a native speaker but damn dude…
RED TAPE – EU edition…
geographically central countries not being on the edge of implementation is sad
There are a lot of errors in the video sadly, but a good overview…
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Your videos are mega interesting (like the information in them), but at the same moment they are really dry somehow cause of intonation lack in your voice. Just monatonic. Thanks for the effort you make, a great channel
You haven't said anything about bulgaria in regard with etcs and ertms. Bulgaria also has, etcs level 2 on some routes.
I'm struck by the comments about 5G vs LTE vs ?? From a software perspective, depending upon the accidental properties of the particular packet infrastructure is either 19th century engineering or extreme boondoggle. No wonder these systems are so expensive. Am I missing something?