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<p>[quote user="BaltACD"]</p> <p><span style="color:#0000ff;">PTC?</span></p> <div style="clear:both;"> </div> <p>[/quote]</p> <p>From International Railway Journal August 28, 2014:</p> <p> </p> <p>Quote: <em>Signalling improvements are another major priority for the main lines as a means of boosting capacity. While a little further behind the electrification project, Chou says that TRA intends to upgrade its ETCS Level 1 network, the installation of which was completed in 2007, to ETCS Level 2.</em></p> <p><em>“While we are still improving our Level 1 system, we are also establishing a Level 2 system, but this still has some time to go,” Chou says. “We believe that in around 2020 we will start testing on the southern section of network. At present we are still estimating the capacity improvements that such an upgrade will provide us.”</em></p> <p>So it should have been ETCS Level 1. The system is fully implemented, able to monitor and control speed and initiate penalty braking: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Train_Control_System">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Train_Control_System</a><br />Regards, Volker</p>
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