MIGRATION FROM CONVENTIONAL SIGNALING TO NEXT-GENERATION TRAIN CONTROL
Jeff Twombly · Transportation Research Record Journal of the Transportation Research Board · 1991
Migration from present-day signaling systems to next-generation control, such as Advanced Train Control Systems (ATCS), will need to be an evolutionary process. Interoperability and compatibility with existing signal systems will be essential if ATCS, integrated with management information systems (MIS), are to provide suitable returns on investment. Some of the benefits of ATCS can be realized now, some later, and probably the train control feature will be the last implemented, certainly where signaling is now in service. Some of the benefits sought are already being realized through developments applied to existing, traditional technology.