More Automation for Regional & Suburban Railways
Explore the benefits and barriers of automating regional & suburban rail through several case studies.
What’s in this Report?
Thanks to modern signalling systems, Automatic Train Operation (ATO) is set to expand across regional & suburban rail networks.
But there are technical, design, and operational issues to automating existing systems. Explore the benefits and barriers of automating regional & suburban rail through several case studies.
Contents:
- An overview of automation in regional & suburban rail
- Case studies, including London, Potsdam, and the Netherlands
- The benefits and barriers of automated vehicles vs maintenance
- Conclusions on automating railways
