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Fernández Suárez, Enrique. Rodríguez, Antonio.

1. ATLAS: The road to Baseline3 - (artículo de 10 páginas – versión 170913a)

European Rail Traffic Management System (ERTMS) development started several years ago,
with some rail manufacturers, infrastructure managers and trains operators, and the European
Union.

From that time, several projects have been deployed across Europe, and there are several
high speed, regional, and freight traffic lines in operation, and hundreds of trains running with
ERTMS in commercial operation. Alstom was present from the beginning in this process.

Alstom was the first to put in service the ATLAS solution for ERTMS in a High Speed Line (HSL)
in Italy. After Alstom did it again for the first freight line in The Netherlands, and the first high-
density line with short headway in Switzerland:

Operational ERTMS
Date Country Line Line (km)
Speed Baseline
2005 Italy Roma-Napoli 300 km/h 2.3.0D 220 D
2006 Switzerland Maastesten Rothrist 200 km/h 2.2.2+ 40 D + 10 S
2007 The Netherlands Betuwe Route (Freight only) 120 km/h 2.3.0D 90 D
(S: single line; D: Double line)

The first set of ERTMS specification, stable and complete, is based in subset 026 with version
called “2.3.0 D”, and it is also known as Baseline 2. The complete list of documents and
applicable versions can be found at:

http://www.era.europa.eu/Core-Activities/ERTMS/Pages/Set-of-specifications1.aspx
This Baseline 2 was used in most of the European projects today in commercial operation,
and in Spain in all the Adif (Administrador de Infraestructuras Ferroviaras, Infraestructure
manager), and Renfe (Public train operator) projects.

Here is the list of the most relevant European projects with ERTMS level 2, in commercial
operation (in bold what is ATLAS solution from Alstom):

Date Country Line Operational Speed
2005 Italy Roma-Napoli 300 km/h
2006 Italy Torino-Milano 300 km/h
2008 Italy Milano-Bologna 300 km/h
2009 Italy Bologna-Firenze 300 km/h
2007 Belgium L3 260 km/h
2009 Belgium L4 300 km/h
2011 Spain Madrid Lleida 350 km/h

2012 Spain Madrid Valencia 350 km/h
2014 Spain Albacete Alicante 300 km/h
2009 The Netherlands HSL Zuid 300 km/h
2012 The Netherlands Hanzelijn 200 km/h

2006 Switzerland Maastesten Rothrist 200 km/h
2007 Switzerland Loetschberg tunnel 250 km/h

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