According to Vaishnaw, the Kavach system can only prevent accidents when two trains mistakenly use the same track and collide from the front or the back.
Delhi, New: According to Union Railways Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw on Wednesday, the railways would begin implementing the Automatic Train Protection (ATP) or Kavach system on the Mumbai-Chennai and Chennai-Kolkata routes in October of this year and plan to finish it in the following three years.
According to him, the Kavach installation on the Delhi-Kolkata and Delhi-Mumbai railway lines would be finished by March 2025. He said, “The goal of installing anti-collision technology on the Golden Quadrilateral is to make passenger travel safer.”
“Kavach on the approximately 3,000-kilometer Delhi-Howrah and Delhi-Mumbai routes will be finished within this fiscal year,” Vaishnaw stated. “
It should be mentioned that trains operating on the Golden Quadrilateral
have the highest volume of passenger traffic.
He continued by saying that Kavach installation work would begin in October and that the tender procedure for the two new railway routes—Chandigram-Kolkata and Chennai-Mumbai Railway (9,000 km)—has been invited.
“Within the next three years, Kavach will be installed in these new routes,” he declared.
The decision has been made to equip 10,000 locomotives with Kavach. Drones and LiDAR (Light Detection and Ranging) technology will be used to survey 8,000 railway stations nationwide. LiDAR employs light in the form of a pulsed laser to estimate distances to the Earth. After that, by February of the following year, work on establishing Kavach data centers at each station would start concurrently, the minister continued.
Vaishnaw clarified, however, that the Kavach technology will only assist in preventing accidents in the event that two trains mistakenly use the same track and collide from either the front or the back.
According to the train ministry, KAVACH 4.0, the most recent version of the system, offers extra capabilities including “temporary speed restrictions,” better braking curves and position accuracy, and station-to-station Kavach communication for increased dependability.
He continued by saying that on July 17, the Research Design and Standards Organization (RDSO), which sets railroad standards, authorized the most recent version of Kavach.
“With Kavach 4.0 finalized, the great variety of Indian Railways is integrated into the design. Railways across the nation will immediately begin implementing Kavach in mission mode in light of the swift achievement of this significant milestone, according to Vaishnaw.
