🚇Mitsubishi Electric Delivers Radio Equipment for Communication-based Train Control System on Tokyo Metro’s Marunouchi Line

🚇Mitsubishi Electric Delivers Radio Equipment for Communication-based Train Control System on Tokyo Metro’s Marunouchi Line

Highly reliable communication will raise railway safety and reliability

TOKYO, February 22, 2018 – Mitsubishi Electric Corporation (TOKYO: 6503) announced today that it has filled an order by Tokyo Metro Co., Ltd for radio equipment to be used in what is believed to be Japan’s first communication-based train control system (CBTC) for subways. The delivery includes wayside radio equipment for a branch of Tokyo Metro’s Marunouchi Line between Nakano-sakaue and Honancho stations and on-board radio equipment for a train that will be operated on the line for verification purposes.

Tokyo Metro will evaluate and verify the equipment through trial operations, aiming at full commercial deployment on the entire Marunouchi Line by the end of fiscal year 2023.