📋 Tender Overview
The Railway Administration has equipped the entire southern corridor with a unified ETCS safety system with the last section being from Votice to Ceske Budejovice. Another milestone will be the introduction of exclusive ETCS operation at the end of next year. Work on the project and installation has been ongoing since 2021. The total costs amount to two and a quarter billion crowns largely funded by the European Union.
The project included not only the installation of the European unified safety system itself but also the construction of remote control for stations track sections and crossings along the nearly one-hundred-kilometer stretch between Votice and Ceske Budejovice. We gradually launched the ETCS system on the southern corridor. Thanks to this we were able to introduce a speed of 200 km/h for the first time on the Czech railway at the end of this years holidays. However we have only just completed the installation of the safety system throughout the Ceske Budejovice node says Mojmir Nejezchleb Deputy General Director of the Railway Administration for railway modernization. He adds that the European system had previously been implemented on the neighboring section from Prague to Votice.
The result of the work is not only safer and faster train travel but also the previously established remote traffic control from the central dispatching office in Pragues Balabenka. From the end of next year all trains between Prague and Ceske Budejovice will also operate under the supervision of the safety system as part of the exclusive ETCS operation.
The European safety system and remote traffic control were first designed and then built by the companies AZD and SUDOP Praha. The total construction costs amount to 2342008872 crowns.
The ETCS+DOZ Votice - Ceske Budejovice project is co-financed by the European Union from the Cohesion Fund under the Transport Program 2021-2027. The total eligible costs of the project amount to 2078188017 CZK. The EU support rate is 85% of the eligible costs so the maximum grant amount is 1766459814 CZK. National financing is provided by the State Fund for Transport Infrastructure.
