{"id":3456,"date":"2023-02-21T03:41:43","date_gmt":"2023-02-20T22:11:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=3456"},"modified":"2025-03-26T12:32:00","modified_gmt":"2025-03-26T07:02:00","slug":"what-is-the-i-ats-indigenous-automatic-train-supervision-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/what-is-the-i-ats-indigenous-automatic-train-supervision-system\/","title":{"rendered":"What is the i-ATS  System?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>About the i-ATS System:<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is <strong>India\u2019s first indigenously developed Train Control and Supervision System<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>It is a <strong>computer-based system<\/strong> that will <strong>manage train operations<\/strong> including basic functioning such as running and halting.<\/li>\n<li>The i-ATS has been <strong>jointly developed by the DMRC and Bharat Electronics Limited (BEL)<\/strong> <strong>under<\/strong> the Government of India\u2019s \u2018Make in India\u2019 and \u2018AatmaNirbhar Bharat\u2019 initiatives for Metro Rail Transit Systems.<\/li>\n<li>It will <strong>reduce the metro\u2019s dependence on foreign vendors<\/strong> for metro operations.<\/li>\n<li>The i-ATS technology has been <strong>developed to be flexible enough to work with different signaling vendors\u2019 systems<\/strong> with suitable changes.<\/li>\n<li>The development of i-ATS is a <strong>huge step forward in CBTC (Communication Based Train Control) based signaling system<\/strong> for the metro railways since the <strong>ATS<\/strong>\u00a0 is an <strong>essential component of the CBTC signaling system.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>With the launch of i-ATS, <strong>India became the sixth country with its own ATS products<\/strong> after France, Germany, Japan, Canada, and China.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1)\u00a0What is CBTC (Communication Based Train Control)?<\/h3>\n<p>CBTC is a modern communication based system that uses radio communication to transfer timely and accurate train control information. CBTC is the choice of mass-transit railway operators today, with over a hundred systems currently installed worldwide.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.financialexpress.com\/infrastructure\/india-launches-first-indigenously-developed-ats-system-for-dmrc-becomes-sixth-countryto-have-its-own-ats-products\/2985421\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>India launches 1st indigenously developed ATS system for DMRC; becomes 6th country to have its own ATS products<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>i-ATS is India\u2019s first indigenously developed Train Control and Supervision System.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":3458,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3456","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3456","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3456"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3456\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}