With the focus on enhancing safety, the railway authorities have decided to boost the onboard train warning and collision prevention systems in trains. The Railway Board will shortly be commissioning the advanced Train Collision Avoidance System (TCAS) on the entire rail network in the country, including on trains in the city’s suburban rail network.u00a0

The European-type safety mechanism, which is quite an advanced and sophisticated system, would be installed to prevent breach of red signals and will automatically bring a train to a halt if it comes within a certain proximity of another train on the same track. Currently, the Auxiliary Warning System (AWS) does the job on the suburban section of both Central and Western Railways.u00a0