The presence or absence of a controller aboard a train does not make "any difference in safety level," said the CEO of SNCF Guillaume Pepy in an interview to newspapers Ebra group, while an internal report on the accident of TER occurred last week in the Ardennes was published Friday morning.
"The trains designed to be conducted as an agent alone have special equipment, cameras of rise and descent, an alarm signal by intercom and the driver is specially trained to drive alone", insisted Mr. Pepy, questioned on the question "controllers in all the trains" demanded by the railwaymen.