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SHARING TRACKS WITH DRIVERLESS TRAINS

Konrad Schmidt, H. Beismann

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The city of Nurnberg has developed plans to phase in the first fully- automatic metro line in Germany. In November 2001, the city's public transport operator, VAG, awarded a contract to Siemens Transportation Systems to supply 30 two-car driverless trains and to equip two metro lines for fully-automated operation. One existing line runs from Nurnberg airport in the north to Rothenbach in the southwest. When a second, fully-automatic line is constructed it will operate as branches off the first line, which will not be converted to a fully- automatic line until 2007. As a result, conventional trains and fully-automatic trains will share track across the city center for a time. Siemens designed a signaling package for these hybrid operations that is based on inductive loop transmission.

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The city of Nurnberg has developed plans to phase in the first fully- automatic metro line in Germany. In November 2001, the city's public transport operator, VAG, awarded a contract to Siemens Transportation Systems to supply 30 two-car driverless trains and to equip two metro lines for fully-automated operation. One existing line runs from Nurnberg airport in the north to Rothenbach in the southwest. When a second, fully-automatic line is constructed it will operate as branches off the first line, which will not be converted to a fully- automatic line until 2007. As a result, conventional trains and fully-automatic trains will share track across the city center for a time. Siemens designed a signaling package for these hybrid operations that is based on inductive loop transmission.

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The city of Nurnberg has developed plans to phase in the first fully- automatic metro line in Germany. In November 2001, the city's public transport operator, VAG, awarded a contract to Siemens Transportation Systems to supply 30 two-car driverless trains and to equip two metro lines for fully-automated operation. One existing line runs from Nurnberg airport in the north to Rothenbach in the southwest. When a second, fully-automatic line is constructed it will operate as branches off the first line, which will not be converted to a fully- automatic line until 2007. As a result, conventional trains and fully-automatic trains will share track across the city center for a time. Siemens designed a signaling package for these hybrid operations that is based on inductive loop transmission.

Key concepts: Train, Siemens, Track (disk drive), Line (geometry), Public transport, Computer science, Telecommunications, Transport engineering

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