Hyundai Rotem Train Control System Receives Jang Young-sil Award

World's First LTE-Based 'KTCS-2'
First in Korea to Meet European Standard Specifications
"Actively Targeting the Global Market"

Hyundai Rotem announced on the 29th that its train control system, the 'Wireless Communication-Based Onboard Train Automatic Control System (KTCS-2),' has received the 'IR(Industrial Research)52 Jang Young-sil Award.'

The IR52 Jang Young-sil Award is organized by the Ministry of Science and ICT and is given to outstanding new technology products or organizations with excellent technological innovation achievements, awarding one case each week for 52 weeks a year. Since its establishment in 1991, it has become the most prestigious award in the domestic industrial technology field.

Kim Kyung-sik, team leader of the Signal Control Research Team at Hyundai Rotem, who received the IR52 Jang Young-sil Award for the development of the KTCS-2 train control system (second from the left), Jo Sung-min, senior researcher (first from the left), Kang Sung-won, senior researcher (third from the left), and Kim Bong-soo, senior researcher (fourth from the left).
[Photo by Hyundai Rotem]

The KTCS-2 system by Hyundai Rotem, which won this award, is a Korean standard train control system developed with domestic technology. It integrates train and ground signal information to continuously control vehicle intervals and positions, which is useful not only for increasing transportation capacity but also for ensuring operational safety.

Until now, there were no domestically produced high-speed train control systems, and all were fully dependent on overseas products. However, with the development of KTCS-2, the era of domestically produced high-speed train control systems has begun. KTCS-2 is the world's first high-speed train control system to apply the 4th generation railway wireless communication LTE-R, enabling data transmission at more than twice the speed compared to existing systems.

Additionally, it is the first in Korea to meet the European standard specification 'ETCS (European Train Control System) Level 2,' securing superior performance compared to existing foreign products and gaining competitiveness for entering the global train control system market. It also obtained the highest grade, 'SIL 4,' in the 'SIL (Safety Integrity Level)' evaluation, a global safety integrity certification in the railway sector.

A Hyundai Rotem official stated, "Through continuous research and development, we will strengthen related technological capabilities so that KTCS-2 can achieve results not only in domestic high-speed rail including GTX and general railway markets but also overseas."

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