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SFO AirTrain, in San Francisco Airport, was the first radio-based CBTC
system deployment in the world
As a result, Bombardier opened the worlds first radio-based CBTC
system at San Francisco airports Automated People Mover (APM) in
February 2003. A few months later, in June 2003, Alstom introduced
the railway application of its radio technology on the Singapore North
East Line. Previously, CBTC has its former origins in the loop based
systems developed by Alcatel SEL (now Thales) for the Bombardier
Automated Rapid Transit (ART) systems in Canada during the mid
1980s. These systems, which were also referred to as TransmissionBased Train Control (TBTC), made use of inductive loop transmission
techniques for track to train communication, introducing an alternative
to track circuit based communication. This technology, operating in the
30-60 KHz frequency range to communicate trains and wayside
equipment, was widely adopted by the metro operators in spite of
some electromagnetic compatibility (EMC) issues, as well as other
installation and maintenance concerns.
As every new application of any technology, some problems arose at
the beginning mainly due to compatibility and interoperability aspects.
[4][5]
However, there have been relevant improvements since then, and
Main features
CBTC and moving block
CBTC systems are modern railway signalling systems that can mainly
be used in urban railway lines (either light or heavy) and APMs,
although it could also be deployed on commuter lines. For main lines, a
similar system might be the European Railway Traffic Management
System ERTMS Level 3 (not yet fully defined). In the modern CBTC
systems the trains continuously calculate and communicate their
status via radio to the wayside equipment distributed along the line.
This status includes, among others parameters, the exact position,
speed, travel direction and braking distance. This information allows
calculation of the area potentially occupied by the train on the track. It
also enables the wayside equipment to define the points on the line
that must never be passed by the other trains on the same track.
These points are communicated to make the trains automatically and
continuously adjust their speed while maintaining the safety and
comfort (jerk) requirements. So, the trains continuously receive
information regarding the distance to the preceding train and are then
able to adjust their safety distance accordingly.
Levels of automation
Main applications
Dallas-Fort Worth Airport driverless APM vehicle equipped with radiobased CBTC true moving block system
CBTC systems allow optimal use of the railway infrastructure as well as
achieving maximum capacity and minimum headway between
operating trains, while maintaining the safety requirements. These
systems are suitable for the new highly demanding urban lines, but
also to be overlaid on existing lines in order to improve their
performance.[8]
Of course, in the case of upgrading existing lines the design,
installation, test and commissioning stages are much more critical.
This is mainly due to the challenge of deploying the overlying system
without disrupting the revenue service.[9]
Main benefits
Risks
The primary risk of a CBTC system is that if the communications link
between any of the trains is disrupted then all or part of the system
might have to enter a failsafe state until the problem is remedied.
Depending on the severity of the communication loss, this state can
range from vehicles temporarily reducing speed, coming to a halt or
operating in a degraded mode until communications are reestablished. If communication outage is permanent some sort of
contingency operation must be implemented which may consist of
manual operation using absolute block or, in the worst case, the
substitution of an alternative form of transportation.[12] As a result, high
availability of CBTC systems is crucial for proper operation, especially if
we consider that such systems are used to increase transport capacity
and reduce headway. System redundancy and recovery mechanisms
must then be thoroughly checked to achieve a high robustness in
operation. With the increased availability of the CBTC system, it must
also be considered the need for an extensive training and periodical
refresh of system operators on the recovery procedures. In fact, one of
the major system hazards in CBTC systems is the probability of human
With the emerging services over open ISM radio bands (i.e. 2.4 GHz
and 5.8 GHz) and the potential disruption over critical CBTC services,
there is an increasing pressure in the international community (ref.
report 676 of UITP organization, Reservation of a Frequency Spectrum
for Critical Safety Applications dedicated to Urban Rail Systems) to
reserve a frequency band especifically for radio-based urban rail
systems. Such decision would help standarize CBTC systems across the
market (a growing demand from most operators) and ensure
availability for those critical systems.
As a CBTC system is required to have high availability and particularly,
allow for a graceful degradation, a secondary method of signaling
might be provided to ensure some level of non-degraded service upon
Architecture
Projects
CBTC technology has been (and is being) successfully implemented for
a variety of applications as shown in the figure below (mid 2011). They
range from some implementations with short track, limited numbers of
vehicles and few operating modes (such as the airport APMs in San
Francisco or Washington), to complex overlays on existing railway
networks carrying more than a million passengers each day and with
more than 100 trains (such as lines 1 and 6 in Metro de Madrid, line 3
in Shenzhen Metro, some lines in Paris Metro and Beijing Metro, or the
Sub-Surface network SSR in London Underground).[18]
Radio-based CBTC moving block projects around the world. Projects are
classified with colours depending on the supplier; those underlined are
already into CBTC operation[note 1]
Despite the difficulty, the table below tries to summarize and reference
the main radio-based CBTC systems deployed around the world as well
as those ongoing projects being developed. Besides, the table
distinguishes between the implementations performed over existing
and operative systems (brownfield) and those undertaken on
completely new lines (Greenfield).
We must take into account that the transmission technology based on
inductive loops (referred to as TBTC in this article) is now being less
and less used. That is why, for clarity, all the projects listed here are
modern radio-based CBTC systems making use of the moving block
concept as described above.
CBTC project list around the world (radio-based and moving block
principle)[note 2][note 3]
No.
Line/Syste
Solutio Commissio K of Comme
Location
Supplier
m
n
ning
m trai
nts
ns
San
AirTrain
BOMBARDI CITYFLO
Greenfiel
Francisco
2003
5 38
APM
ER
650
d, UTO
Airport
Singapore North-East
Greenfiel
ALSTOM Urbalis
2003
20 40
Metro
Line
d, UTO
Satellite
SeattleTransit
BOMBARDI CITYFLO
Brownfiel
Tacoma
2003
3 22
System
ER
650
d, UTO
Airport
APM
SelTrac
Greenfiel
Las Vegas Monorail
THALES
2004
6 36
RF
d, UTO
Wuhan
1
THALES SelTrac
2004
27 32
Metro
DallasDFW
BOMBARDI CITYFLO
Greenfiel
Fortworth Skylink
2005
10 64
ER
650
d, UTO
Airport
APM
Hong Kong Pennys
SelTrac
Greenfiel
THALES
2005
3
2
Disneyland Bay Line
RF
d, UTO
Lausanne
Greenfiel
M2
ALSTOM Urbalis
2008
6 17
Metro
d, UTO
Airport
Greenfiel
Beijing
ALSTOM Urbalis
2008
28 10
Express
d, DTO
Beijing
Brownfiel
2
ALSTOM Urbalis
2008
23 48
Metro
d, STO
Metro de
BOMBARDI CITYFLO
Brownfiel
1, 6
2008
48 143
Madrid
ER
650
d, STO
Las VegasMcCarran BOMBARDI CITYFLO
Brownfiel
McCarran
2008
2 10
Airport APM
ER
650
d, UTO
Airport
London
Heathrow BOMBARDI CITYFLO
Greenfiel
Heathrow
2008
1
9
APM
ER
650
d, UTO
Airport
Traingua
Metro de
Greenfiel
9
SIEMENS rd MT
2009
46 50
Barcelona
d, UTO
CBTC
New York BMT
Traingua
Brownfiel
City
Canarsie
SIEMENS rd MT
2009
17 53
d, STO
Subway
Line
CBTC
CBTC project list around the world (radio-based and moving block
principle)[note 2][note 3]
No.
Line/Syste
Solutio Commissio K of Comme
Location
Supplier
m
n
ning
m trai
nts
ns
Washingto
SelTrac
Greenfiel
n-Dulles
Dulles APM THALES
2009
8 29
RF
d, UTO
Airport
Greenfiel
Shanghai
13
d and
6, 7, 8, 9
THALES SelTrac
2009
111
Metro
5
Brownfiel
d
Greenfiel
Taipei
NeihuBOMBARDI CITYFLO
d and
2009
26 76
Metro
Mucha
ER
650
Brownfiel
d, UTO
SEPTA Light
Philadelphi
BOMBARDI CITYFLO
Rail Green
2010
8 115 STO
a
ER
650
Line
Beijing
4
THALES SelTrac
2010
28 33 DTO
Metro
Guangzho Pearl River BOMBARDI CITYFLO
Greenfiel
2010
4 19
u Metro
Line APM
ER
650
d, DTO
Guangzho
SelTrac
3
THALES
2010
67 40 DTO
u Metro
RF
London
Terminal
BOMBARDI CITYFLO
Brownfiel
Gatwick
Transfer
2010
1
6
ER
650
d, UTO
Airport
APM
Inside
ANSALDO
2010
RATPs
Brownfiel
Paris Metro 3, 5
STS /
,
26 40
Ouragan
d, STO
SIEMENS
2013
project
EverLine
BOMBARDI CITYFLO
Yongin
2011
19 30 UTO
ART
ER
650
Shenzhen
BOMBARDI CITYFLO
3
2011
42 43 STO
Metro
ER
650
Metro de 7 Extension
Brownfiel
INVENSYS SIRIUS
2011
9
?
Madrid
MetroEste
d, STO
Dubai
Greenfiel
Red, Green THALES SelTrac
2011
70 85
Metro
d, UTO
Seoul
Bundang
Greenfiel
THALES SelTrac
2011
17 12
Metro
Line
d, DTO
Shenyang 1
ANSALDO CBTC
2011
27 23 Greenfiel
CBTC project list around the world (radio-based and moving block
principle)[note 2][note 3]
No.
Line/Syste
Solutio Commissio K of Comme
Location
Supplier
m
n
ning
m trai
nts
ns
Metro
STS
d, STO
Sacrament
o
Sacrament BOMBARDI CITYFLO
Greenfiel
2011
1
2
Internation o APM
ER
650
d, UTO
al Airport
Traingua
Brownfiel
Paris Metro 1
SIEMENS rd MT
2011
16 53
d, DTO
CBTC
Tianjin
BOMBARDI CITYFLO
2, 3
2012
52 40 STO
Metro
ER
650
Singapore
Greenfiel
Circle
ALSTOM Urbalis
2009
35 40
Metro
d, UTO
Greenfiel
Metro
d and
1
ALSTOM Urbalis
2012
20 42
Santiago
Brownfiel
d, DTO
Greenfiel
So Paulo
d and
1, 2, 3
ALSTOM Urbalis
2012
62 142
Metro
Brownfiel
d, DTO
Traingua
Algiers
Greenfiel
1
SIEMENS rd MT
2012
9 14
Metro
d, STO
CBTC
Phoenix
PHX Sky
BOMBARDI CITYFLO
Greenfiel
Sky Harbor
2012
3 18
Train
ER
650
d, UTO
Airport
KAFD
BOMBARDI CITYFLO
Greenfiel
Riyadh
2012
4 12
Monorail
ER
650
d, UTO
Brownfiel
Shanghai
SelTrac
d and
11
THALES
2012
50 58
Metro
RF
Greenfiel
d
So Paulo
10
Brownfiel
Commuter 8, 10, 11
INVENSYS SIRIUS
2012
136
7
d, STO
Lines
Helsinki
1
SIEMENS Traingua
2014
35 ? Greenfiel
Metro
rd MT
d and
CBTC
Brownfiel
CBTC project list around the world (radio-based and moving block
principle)[note 2][note 3]
No.
Line/Syste
Solutio Commissio K of Comme
Location
Supplier
m
n
ning
m trai
nts
ns
d, STO[19]
SelTrac
Paris Metro 13
THALES
2013
23 ? STO
RF
Traingua
Beijing
8, 10
SIEMENS rd MT
2013
49 82 STO
Metro
CBTC
Traingua
Nanjing
Greenfiel
2, 10
SIEMENS rd MT
2013
38 35
Metro
d
CBTC
Caracas
Brownfiel
1
INVENSYS SIRIUS
2013
21 ?
Metro
d
Tiradentes
So Paulo Monorail
BOMBARDI CITYFLO
Greenfiel
2014
25 54
Metro
Extension
ER
650
d, UTO
Line 2
Stockholm
ANSALDO
Brownfiel
Red
CBTC
2014
41 30
Metro
STS
d, STO
King
Jeddah
BOMBARDI CITYFLO
Greenfiel
Abdulaziz
2014
2
6
Airport
ER
650
d, UTO
APM
Incheon
SelTrac
2
THALES
2014
29 37 UTO
Metro
RF
Munich
Munich
BOMBARDI CITYFLO
Greenfiel
Airport T2
2014
1 12
Airport
ER
650
d, UTO
APM
Brownfiel
So Paulo
BOMBARDI CITYFLO
d&
5
2015
20 34
Metro
ER
650
Greenfiel
d, UTO
Taipei
ANSALDO
Greenfiel
Circular
CBTC
2015
15 17
Metro
STS
d, UTO
Singapore
Greenfiel
Downtown INVENSYS SIRIUS
2016
40 73
Metro
d, UTO
Taichung
Greenfiel
Green
ALSTOM Urbalis
2017
18 29
Metro
d, UTO
Kuala
Klang
BOMBARDI CITYFLO
Greenfiel
Lumpur
2017
51 74
Valley MRT
ER
650
d, UTO
MRT
CBTC project list around the world (radio-based and moving block
principle)[note 2][note 3]
No.
Line/Syste
Solutio Commissio K of Comme
Location
Supplier
m
n
ning
m trai
nts
ns
New York IRT
SelTrac
Brownfiel
City
Flushing
THALES
2017
25 46
RF
d, STO
Subway
Line
SSR Lines:
Metropolita
London
n, District, BOMBARDI CITYFLO
19
Brownfiel
Undergrou
2018
334
Circle,
ER
650
0
d, STO
nd
Hammersm
ith & City
Traingua
Rennes
Greenfiel
B
SIEMENS rd MT
2018
12 19
ART
d, UTO
CBTC
Traingua
Copenhag
17
Brownfiel
All lines
SIEMENS rd MT
2018
136
en S-Train
0
d, STO
CBTC
Traingua
Budapest
M2, M4
SIEMENS rd MT
?
17 41
Metro
CBTC
Traingua
Guangzho
4, 5
SIEMENS rd MT
?
70 ?
u Metro
CBTC
Traingua
So Paulo
Greenfiel
4
SIEMENS rd MT
?
13 14
Metro
d, UTO
CBTC
Marmaray Commuter
Greenfiel
INVENSYS SIRIUS
?
77 ?
Lines
Lines
d, STO