BRIC Signalling

More information can be found at the Bayland wiki page Railway Signalling in Bayland.
BRIC Signalling (BayRail In-Cab Signalling) is a railway signalling system developed by BayRail used in Bayland, Lustar, and on the Eastern Mainline in Kwitzka. The system is intended to enable safe high speed operation on high speed lines and frequent operation on heavily used lines. The system can exist without standalone signals (in Bayland and Lustar) and in conjunction with older mainline railway signalling (in Kwitzka). The system is similar to but not compatible with ETCS.
BRIC Signalling works by using radio transmissions to trains and balises in the tracks. BRIC allows for shunting, which can be entirely remotely controlled by the traffic dispatcher (only in Bayland). Signal block borders are indicated by a square blue sign with a green rhombus in the center. In 2023, some trains started to recieve a new version of BRIC, which was updated with Automatic Train Operation (ATO), which allows for the train to drive itself, (a driver is still needed). As of April 2023, this has been implemented only on 2 Nqlät Nödden trains for testing, but there are plans to equip the whole Nqlät Nödden fleet with ATO. Plans to equip other operator's fleets with ATO are not currently known to exist.
The ATO-BRIC system does not need extra installation on the railway, apart from balises at stations. This makes the conversion to running on ATO a matter of simply upgrading the train's software and installing balises. It operates using the same BRIC indications a driver would recieve.
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