2017 – March – Leveque – Advanced features over ETCS for suburban railway operation

Dr Olivier Leveque Alstom Signalling – Australia New Zealand The advanced features over ETCS detailed in this paper are Virtual Block Sectioning and scalable Automatic Train Operation. These features can be incrementally implemented to meet the current and future business requirements of a suburban railway operation. A case study is presented to illustrate the performance benefits of a scalable ATO overlaid onto an ETCS solution for a suburban application.