Vande Bharat 2.0 Fleet Expands Indigenous Kavach 4.0 Collision Avoidance Deployment
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Indian Railways has initiated network-wide deployment of the Kavach 4.0 automatic train protection system across high-density passenger corridors.
Kavach 4.0 utilizes UHF radio telemetry, RFID track transponders, and dual-redundant locomotive onboard computers to automatically apply brakes if an engineer passes a red signal.
Sleeper variants of the semi-high-speed trainsets are completing 160 km/h trial operations on the Delhi-Mumbai and Delhi-Howrah trunk routes.
"Sovereign railway automation delivers the dual dividend of world-class passenger safety and industrial capacity retention within domestic manufacturing hubs."
Indigenous safety architecture reduces per-kilometer track electrification and signaling costs by over 55% compared to imported systems.
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