Automated Railways Being Tested

(China Daily, May 02, 2018)

China Railway Signal and Communication Co, the country's railway control systems provider, has built the world's largest simulation laboratory for automated railway control systems in Beijing, shrugging off a reliance on foreign products and technologies that come at higher costs. The laboratory can carry out comprehensive simulation tests for 2,000 kilometers of high-speed railways, 1,000 kilometers of intercity railways, 100 kilometers of subways and five large-scale freight marshaling yards at the same time. It has implemented next-generation train control systems and intelligent integrated transportation systems based on China's Beidou Navigation Satellite System. Supported by domestically developed technologies China's intercity railways, subways, low-and medium-speed magnetic levitation lines and freight trains will all be able to be equipped with automated driving systems in the future, said Zhou Zhiliang, chairman of China Railway Signal and Communication Co.