📋 Tender Overview
Czech Railways will soon have completed the first year of exclusive operation of the ETCS safety system. From January to the end of November 2025 the system monitored more than 520000 trains that traveled over 38 million kilometers. Every day more than 2550 trains operate under the supervision of ETCS on domestic tracks. The system demonstrates high reliability.
The availability of ETCS reached an average of 99.53% this year and in November even with the first snowfall we recorded a value of 99.72%. For transportation this means stable operations and minimal outages. The results clearly show that ETCS is a reliable pillar of safety on the railway. The introduction of exclusive operation took place without significant impacts on passengers and efforts are being made to reduce the influence of winter conditions on the systems operation evaluates the situation Minister of Transport Martin Kupka emphasizing: Good results have been achieved thanks to intensive and close cooperation between the Railway Administration the Railway Authority technology suppliers and carriers.
The difficulties from last winter when some locomotives experienced preventive stops due to errors in odometry (simply put the freezing of Doppler radar sensors near the wheels of the locomotive) have already been significantly reduced.
For reference: during the period from November 23 to 26 when we recorded heavier snowfall in the Czech Republic there were on average only 9 emergency stops of trains per day due to the aforementioned odometry involving various types of traction vehicles and different carriers in both passenger and freight transport. Compared to the beginning of the year this is a significantly better result.
Thanks to software adjustments service interventions technical proposals from carriers and cooperation with manufacturers these problems have largely been resolved for the upcoming winter. The main help came from the reloading of the relevant software which has already been completed for locomotives of the series 362 and is ongoing for Vectron 193 locomotives.
More information about the operation of the ETCS system can be found here.
