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Pilot FASTag project at Hyderabad airport Modern Train Control

inistry of Road Transport and second phase of the pilot shall cover System for Indian
Highways has initiated a pilot all other Issuer Bank tags. This has Railways
Mproject for using FASTags been done to ensure the benefits of
for parking purposes at Hyderabad FASTag beyond tolling. Conceptualised he Indian Railways will soon
Airport. The pilot project was launched as FASTag 2.0, it covers parking implement Modern Train Control
in two phases; the first being a payments, fuel payments, etc. After Tsystem with LTE based MTRC to
controlled pilot testing, wherein only the success in Hyderabad, the project modernize its signalling system on its
ICICI tags would be used and the will be launched at Delhi airport. entire network. The system envisages
the upgradation of the signalling
system for improving safety, line
capacity and to run trains at a higher
speed. The work includes Automatic
Train Protection System, Electronic
Interlocking System, Remote
Diagnostic & Predictive Maintenance
System, Long Term Evolution-based
Mobile Train Radio Communication
System and Centralized Traffic Control
System/Train Management System.
The system will be implemented on
Delhi - Mumbai and Delhi - Howrah
high-density routes.

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