The Czech Republic plans to invest CZK 1 billion (EUR 37 million) in sensors that would help prevent railway accidents and thefts in the next four years within a smart transport strategy that a cabinet meeting is to discuss on June 22nd.
The strategy, worked out by Transport Minister Dan Tok, wants to introduce electronic systems worth CZK 12 billion (EUR 443 million) on railways, motorways and rivers by 2020.
About 2000 kilometers of the main railway corridors, will be equipped with optical cables that will provide detailed information about any movement near the track, the Czech News Agency informs.
“The system will help us reliably control the security of the railway corridors,” Minister Tok said. The Czech Railway Infrastructure Administration has started testing the system, but it does not provide any information on its functioning and the present results of the tests because such details might help people circumvent the system, its spokesman Jakub Ptacinsky said.
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