Indian Railways plan to use the spectrum allocation to provide long-term evolution (LTE) based mobile train radio communication for seamless communication between its running staff, the traffic controller, and maintenance personnel to enhance safety and security.
June 16, 2021
Indian Railways has envisaged an investment of about Rs. 55,000 crore over the next five years on multiple signaling technologies to enhance the safety and security of passengers during train travel.
Expanding the railway network capacity through signalling modernization will do away with the need to lay new tracks by acquiring land.
The modernization will be in the areas of Long Term Evolution (LTE), Optical Fibre System, Train Collision Avoidance System (TCAS), Automatic Block Signalling (ABS), Electronic Interlocking (EI) and Centralized Traffic Control.
Earlier, the Union Cabinet had allocated 5 MHz spectrum in 700 MHz band for the Railways which will be used for providing LTE based mobile train radio communication and advanced radio network on its route.
The Cabinet had also approved the TCAS to make rail travel safer and faster, envisaging an investment of Rs 25,000 crore for these two projects. With an expanded modernization plan, the cost of the projects is estimated to be Rs 56,955 crore.
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