Key:railway:ctc

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railway:ctc
Description
Indicates that a railway is protected by Centralized Traffic Control (CTC) Edit this description in the wiki page. Edit this description in the data item.
Group: railways
Used on these elements
should not be used on nodesmay be used on waysshould not be used on areasshould not be used on relations (except multipolygon relations)
Useful combination
Status: in use

Centralized Traffic Control (CTC) is a protection system used on railways in North America, South Korea and New Zealand. The purpose of CTC is to ensure safety of railway traffic, however CTC is not a signling system. Therefore this tag can coexist with other tags related with signaling.


See also