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SIGNAL+DRAHT | Issue 07-08/2021

Digital S-Bahn Hamburg – Germany’s first implementation of ATO over ETCS

August 2021 | Jan Schröder, Christoph Gonçalves Alpoim, Boris Dickgießer, Volker Knollmann

In 2017, the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg successfully outbid the competition to host the 2021 ITS World Congress (ITS – Intelligent Transport Systems). Industry experts and other interested parties from around the world will gather together in Hamburg from 11 to 15 October for this year’s event, which will feature a series of technical demonstrations. The innovations set to be unveiled to the railway community include a joint R&D project by Deutsche Bahn AG (DB) and Siemens Mobility, which has seen the ATO over ETCS system implemented on a German mainline railway for the first time....