Introducing the CBTC feed for Bluesky

TL;DR

Check it out here and pin it to your feeds.

Communications Based Train Control is an immensely important technology in the transportation world, but it’s not often talked about, and even less understood. A benefit of this obscurity is that it is reasonably easy to read all that is said about CBTC on a platform look Bluesky. If you’re someone with real world knowledge of CBTC, or an interested member of the public or industry, I hope this feed can help you keep track of the conversations around modern signaling.

Why #

CBTC is a tiny niche, tinier still on Bluesky. I figured it would be nice to have a feed to find conversations about communications based train control and other modern signaling systems. You can view it, or add it to your feeds here.

Keywords #

The system is not case-sensitive. Because it is a very simple system, it may misidentify posts on occasion, though measures have been taken to avoid this. If something has been erroneously included and has been there for longer than a week, DM me a link and I’ll remove it!

Any post including any of the following keywords will be included.

  • CBTC, communications based train control,
  • Trainguard,
  • Seltrac,
  • Stadler NOVA,
  • TBTC, transmission based train control, 4LM,
  • Grade of Automation, GoA1, GoA2, GoA3, GoA4,
  • Alstom Fluence, Urbalis, Cityflo,
  • OCTYS,
  • OURAGAN,
  • NExTEO,
  • SACEM,
  • IEEE1474,
  • EN50126,
  • IEC62290,
  • VOBC
  • zone controller,
  • Muni ATC,
  • Automatic Train Control,
  • Automatic Train Protection,
  • Secondary Train Detection,
  • AWPS

And please, whatever you do, don’t ask GPT about signaling. It will give you nonsense.