AŽD Praha s.r.o. is a Czech private commercial company engaged mainly in the development and production of communication, signalling and signalling equipment for railway transport, light signalling equipment for road transport and other additional and related activities. From October 2021 to the end of September 2022, AŽD Praha increased its turnover by 26 percent year-on-year to approximately CZK 12 billion. The company's profit also rose by about CZK 17 million to CZK 975 million.

Driverless mainline trains

In 2021, it demonstrated the first autonomous mainline railway train in the

Czech Republic The Czech Republic, also known as Czechia, and historically known as Bohemia, is a landlocked country in Central Europe. The country is bordered by Austria to the south, Germany to the west, Poland to the northeast, and Slovakia to the south ...

. 15 years after the end of former services, regular passenger services on the line from Kopidlno to Dolní Bousov will be resumed as

driverless train operation Automatic train operation (ATO) is a method of operating trains automatically where the driver is not required or is required for supervision at most. Alternatively, ATO can be defined as a subsystem within the automatic train control, which pe ...

in 2025. The train vehicle will be ČD Class 810. The owner of this line is AŽD Praha. It took over the line in 2014 and uses it to test its technologies.

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AŽD Praha a otočka Jesenická.jpg, AŽD Praha and the Jesenická roundabout

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