ADVISORY/Media Invited to Inaugural Train Trip under BART's new Advanced Automatic Train Control System.News Editors OAKLAND, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 26, 2002 The media is invited to join BART officials for the inaugural run of BART's new 21st century Advanced Automatic Train Control (AATC AATC Asian American Theater Company AATC Advanced Automatic Train Control AATC Air National Guard Air Force Reserve Test Center AATC Automatic Air Traffic Control AATC Americans Against Traffic Calming AATC Air-to-Air Thermal Cycling ) system. The radio-based "Double-A Tee-Cee" train control system, will allow trains to run closer together, while maintaining safe distances between trains, thus increasing the number of trains BART can operate through downtown Oakland Downtown Oakland is the central business district in Oakland, California. This part of town is bounded, depending on the definition used by either Interstate 880 or the Oakland Estuary on the southwest, Interstate 980 on the northwest, Grand Avenue on the northeast and Lake Merritt and the Transbay Tube The Transbay Tube is the part of BART which runs under San Francisco Bay in California and is the longest underwater tube for rapid transit in the world. The tube itself is 3.6 miles (5. each hour. BART, working with private-sector companies, has been developing and testing the system since the early 1990s. In its current iteration One repetition of a sequence of instructions or events. For example, in a program loop, one iteration is once through the instructions in the loop. See iterative development. (programming) iteration - Repetition of a sequence of instructions. , BART has been developing the system with GE Transportation Systems Global Signaling LLC (Logical Link Control) See "LANs" under data link protocol. LLC - Logical Link Control . BART's original, and current train control system, relies on "fixed block" technology that limits Transbay train throughput to 23 trains per hour; AATC will increase that by 30 percent to 30 trains per hour. If commute-hour trains carry 1,000 passengers each, AATC will allow BART to move an additional 7,000 passengers through the transbay corridor each hour of each weekday commute TO COMMUTE. To substitute one punishment in the place of another. For example, if a man be sentenced to be hung, the executive may, in some states, commute his punishment to that of imprisonment. period. In July, the state Public Utilities Commission certified AATC's safety and authorized BART to begin operating with the new technology.
WHAT Demonstration run of BART train operating under the new
AATC system.
WHEN 10 a.m., Friday, Sept. 27, 2002
WHERE Street Level plaza of the Lake Merritt BART Station.
Followed by train ride to Bay Fair BART Station and
return, under AATC control, to Lake Merritt Station.
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