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Delhi Metro Deploys i-ATS - India's 1st Indigenous Signalling System
The Delhi Metro has deployed the nation's first indigenously developed Train Control and Supervision System - i-ATS (Indigenous–Automatic Train Supervision) - on the system's Red Line.
The Delhi Metro has deployed the nation's first indigenously developed Train Control and Supervision System - i-ATS. The indigenously developed i-ATS system was launched on the DMRC's Red Line on Saturday.
The i-ATS system was launched by Manoj Joshi, Secretary, Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs, Government of India.Also present at the launch of the i-ATS system were Vikas Kumar, Managing Director, Delhi Metro, Bhanu Prakash Srivastava, Chairman and Managing Director, Bharat Electronics Limited.
The Indigenous-Automatic Train Supervision system was developed by the Delhi Metro and Bharat Electronics Limited (BEL) under the Government of India's 'AatmaNirbhar Bharat' initiative for the Metro Rail Transit System.
The i-ATS is the first time an automatic signalling system has been developed in India by Indian companies and will help the nation's metro systems lower their dependency on foreign suppliers for such important components.
The Indigenous-Automatic Train Supervision system uses computers to manage the trains using the system. The i-ATS system controls train operations like starting and halting.
The Indigenous - Automatic Train Supervision system is another milestone in the development of the Communication Based Train Control (CBTC) systems a railway signalling system that uses telecommunications between the train and track equipment to help track a train's position compared to more traditional systems.
This is not the first time the Delhi Metro has been at forefront of technology and train systems in the country. Ever since it first opened in 2002, the Delhi Metro has been the system the nation turns to for innovation and it was the first metro system in the country to feature driverless trains on its Magenta line.
The deployment of the i-ATS system on the Red line is also quite a significant event as this was the first line that the DMRC opened in 2022. Since that momentous Christmas day in 2002, the Delhi Metro has opened eight more colour-coded lines that have helped the network stretch its net across Delhi and the national capital region.
The Delhi Metro system today features nearly 350 kilometres of railway lines with 255 stations. In 2019, before the pandemic hit, the Delhi Metro carried a total of 1.79 billion people, which is more than the entire population of the nation.
While the Delhi Metro system is mostly seen riding above the ground on elevated corridors, it also features quite a few sections that run on the ground and underneath it. In fact, the Yellow line stretch between the GTB Nagar and Qutub Minar is the longest underground tunnel in the country stretching a distance of 24 kilometres underneath the streets of the nation's capital.
Thoughts About The Delhi Metro's Latest Innovation
The deployment of the i-ATS setup on the Delhi Metro's Red line shows that the nation's largest metro system is continuing its journey of innovation that has helped reshape public transport in many cities across the country. The i-ATS setup will help the DMRC run trains at faster intervals in the future when CBTC comes into full effect.
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