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Deutsche Bahn DB is planning to digitize one of the largest and busiest railway hubs in Germany. Digital control and safety technology is intended to ensure that the rails in the Cologne railway junction are significantly more efficient in the future. For example at least three S-Bahn trains per hour in each direction should also travel over the Hohenzollern Bridge bottleneck and the trains will also be more reliable and punctual. DB is now starting a feasibility study for the project which the federal government is funding with 800000 euros. The initiators of the project also include the state of North Rhine-Westphalia and the Rhineland Local Transport Association.Ronald Pofalla DB Infrastructure Board Member The digital rail in Germany is making further progress. Today we are opening the first chapter with the feasibility study. The Cologne railway junction with its more than half a million daily commuters is to be equipped with the latest control and safety technology - alongside Stuttgart as one of the first metropolitan regions in Germany. Were increasing the number of trains and making them more punctual.Enak Ferlemann Parliamentary State Secretary at the Federal Minister for Transport and Digital Infrastructure Rail transport in Germany should be significantly strengthened and more reliable for reasons of climate protection among other things. The digital rail in Germany makes a decisive contribution to this and makes the railways fit for the future. Cologne is one of the busiest nodes in the network. With its digitization it can become more efficient and less susceptible to malfunctions. The feasibility study financed by the federal government with up to 800000 is intended to determine the exact digitization options. Together with DB AG the state of North Rhine-Westphalia and the NVR we are taking the first step into the digital future of the Cologne hub.Hendrik Wst Transport Minister of North Rhine-Westphalia We have accepted the responsibility to leave the next generation a climate-neutral country that as an industrialized country also guarantees prosperity and social security and in which mobility is not a new social issue. Mobility must get better safer and cleaner and it must also be affordable for everyone in the future. In order for us to achieve our goals in mobility Germany has to become a railroad country again. To do this we are also using the opportunities offered by digitization at the neuralgic railway junction in Cologne. In this way we create more capacity more reliability higher efficiency and more climate protection. Together with the new western clasp the federal government DB and the state ensure better safe and clean mobility.Dr. Norbert Reinkober Managing Director of the Rhineland Local Transport Association NVR Every building block on the way to a high-performance Cologne hub is important. We are therefore very pleased that we are taking a further step towards high-performance and upgraded nodes through digitization and can thus offer our passengers additional capacities. Now I hope that the urgently needed infrastructure measures will be implemented quickly.The feasibility study deals with the main line of the S-Bahn as well as important feeder lines in the greater Cologne area. The aim is to equip all routes there with the European Train Control System ETCS the control is to take place exclusively via digital interlockings. The study also looks at the vehicle equipment required to enable highly automated driving. The study is expected to be completed by the end of next year. A milestone plan for converting infrastructure and vehicles to digital technologies is expected. The feasibility study complements the existing plans from the Digital Rail Germany starter package such as the ETCS equipment for the high-speed Cologne-Rhine Main line.
