The overall European GSM-R railway network is 221.100 km and 159.966 km are planned to be covered by GSM-R (70%)
December 2011 – appr. 85.000 km are constructed and 68.000 km of them are in commercial service including appr. 115.000 GSM-R handhelds, 40.000 cab radios, 2.000 EDOR’s and dispatch systems.
In Europe, from total railway network taken into account, which means 221.025 km, 150.650 are foreseen to be covered with GSM-R, which means 68, 16 %.
Taking as reference 1st of January 2010, 79.300 km of railway network are equipped with GSM-R, from which 65.800 Km are in operation, which means 43, 7% from the planned network.
For the mobile users part, from the approximate 260.000 users planned so far (for all European projects), 137.270 are reported to be activated, which means almost 32,9 % From this ones, 31916 Cab Radios and 1.331 EDORs are activated.
(Source for the above figures: ERIG)
Statistics show that Wider Black Sea Area (WBSA) countries are gradually installing GSM-R on some of their railway lines, many countries are also starting to embrace GSM-R as their train control system of choice. This is explained by the numerous benefits brought by GSM-R on top of interoperability.
In the following pages you can access practical data about GSM-R deployment in WBSA.
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