SIGNAL+DRAHT | Ausgabe 07-08/2022
Dear readers,
Matthias Ruete points out the lack of incentives for the vehicle-side installation of ERTMS in his report as the European Coordinator for the ERTMS/ETCS train control system and suggests the measures that the EU wants to use to achieve such motivation. As long as trains can continue to travel with national Class B train safety systems, their operators will be saved the expense of retrofitting them. Any EU support will be calculated on the basis of the average costs for this: the retrofit of an international locomotive costs (depending on the national Class B systems and the number of further installed systems) 2.5...