On November 30, on the occasion of the celebration of Professional Practice Day, the College of Telecommunications Engineers (COIT) organized a visit to the Control Center of Metro Madrid in which the latest technologies applied in the railway environment that are currently being implemented and where bcb was present.
At the end of last summer, the new command post of the Madrid Metro was inaugurated in the station of Alto del Arenal, on line 1 (Plaza de Castilla-Congosto), which replaces the old one of Pacífico and integrates all the functions of control and coordination of the network from trains to security, through stations, energy and civil protection.
The new command post of the Madrid Metro coordinates the control of the entire network
Metro de Madrid is one of the best in the world with 300 km of tracks and 301 stations. As a comparison, it can be indicated that thanks to the intensive use of technology, 7,000 employees (compared with the 50,000 of the Moscow Metro that is similar in size) make it possible to service the more than 600 million users that are going to be used every day. to have this year 2017.
