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Centralized traffic control (CTC) is a form of railway signalling that originated in North America. CTC consolidates train routing decisions that were previously carried out by local signal operators or the train crews themselves.
Yumpu was launched in 2011 as a self-publishing service for B2B by Norbert Rom's i-magazine AG (founded 2006). [1] [2] I-magazine AG, in turn, is a subsidiary of adRom Holding AG, which was also founded by Norbert Rom. [3] In 2016, Yummy Publishing GmbH was founded in Austria as a subsidiary of i-Magazine AG, which supports the parent company with various services.
CBTC is a signalling standard defined by the IEEE 1474 standard. [1] The original version was introduced in 1999 and updated in 2004. [1] The aim was to create consistency and standardisation between digital railway signalling systems that allow for an increase in train capacity through what the standard defines as high-resolution train location determination. [1]
The Datapoint 2200 had a built-in full-travel keyboard, a built-in 12-line, 80-column green screen monitor, and two 47 character-per-inch cassette tape drives each with 130 KB capacity. Its size, 9 + 5 ⁄ 8 in × 18 + 1 ⁄ 2 in × 19 + 5 ⁄ 8 in (24 cm × 47 cm × 50 cm), and shape—a box with protruding keyboard—approximated that of an ...
Pressing one half of the button, (often marked with a speaker icon or the letters "MON", short for "MONitor") disables the CTCSS decoder and reverts the receiver to hearing any signal on the channel. This is called the monitor function. There is sometimes a mechanical interlock: the user must push down and hold the monitor button or the ...
CTC-16 system offered simultaneous control of up to 16 locomotives. [13] A series of 16 variable width pulses is sent out to the track 125 times each second. A receiver mounted in each locomotive is programmed to respond to only one of the 16 pulses. The voltage and polarity applied to the motor depend on the width/timing of the pulse ...
Datapoint Corporation, originally known as Computer Terminal Corporation (CTC), was a computer company based in San Antonio, Texas, United States. Founded in July 1968 by Phil Ray and Gus Roche, its first products were, as the company's initial name suggests, computer terminals intended to replace Teletype machines connected to time sharing ...
The original MCCS standard version 1 was released on September 11, 1998. MCCS Version 2 was released on October 17, 2003. A major update of the standard, it provided support for flat panel displays, VESA DPVL (Digital Packet Video Link) standard; it added a range of television controls and introduced individual control of multiple windows on a display.