On October 16, 2021, Thales SEC Transport 2021 (2nd) Seminar for Signalling System Design was successfully held in Shanghai, attended by about 30 experts from more than ten major design institutes engaged in metro design across China.

Experts from technical department of the company conducted open, frank and heated discussions with experts from the design institutes on topics such as high performance foldback and next generation CBTC, 5G bearing CBTC research and testing, application and exploration of fully automated operational systems, and how to build functional safety cases. The architecture and operational performance of the TST High Performance Foldback System was fully recognized by the attending experts: The resource-centric characteristic on which the next-generation control system based, making the next-generation control system closer to the future technology development. The attending experts showed strong interest for this and made lively discussion; at the same time, the experts put forward valuable suggestions on how the intelligent operation and maintenance system could solve the pain points of customer; they also provided many valuable and constructive opinions and suggestions on TST’s products and technologies.

Experts and scholars from major design institutes shared research results on related topics, such as research and innovation of UNIFE, fully automated operation technology and practice of urban rail transport, and discussions on requirement of municipal rail. The seminar provides very useful reference for TST’s next innovative technology development, municipal rail solutions, etc.