ETCS

European Train Control System - component of the unified European Rail Traffic Management System. Article “ETCS” in Japanese Wikipedia has 45.9 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 36 references and 18 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 2.42 points.

This article has the best quality in German Wikipedia. Also, this article is the most popular in that (Japanese) language version.

Since the creation of article “ETCS”, its content was written by 17 registered users of Japanese Wikipedia and edited by 1143 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 157 times in Japanese Wikipedia and cited 3565 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Japanese): #38199 in March 2021
• Global: #5446 in October 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Japanese): #65398 in February 2010
• Global: #51226 in July 2013

There are 22 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2026 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	German (de) European Train Control System		100
2	Russian (ru) Европейская система управления движением поездов		99.7306
3	English (en) European Train Control System		73.169
4	French (fr) Système européen de contrôle des trains		63.0402
5	Portuguese (pt) Sistema europeu de controlo ferroviário		60.7318
6	Dutch (nl) European Train Control System		55.7275
7	Czech (cs) European Train Control System		55.4339
8	Greek (el) Ευρωπαϊκό Σύστημα Ελέγχου Αμαξοστοιχιών		53.6852
9	Polish (pl) Europejski System Sterowania Pociągiem		47.2864
10	Japanese (ja) ETCS		45.9445

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The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

The most popular language versions of the article "ETCS" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	German (de) European Train Control System		1 411 611
2	English (en) European Train Control System		1 320 975
3	French (fr) Système européen de contrôle des trains		296 355
4	Polish (pl) Europejski System Sterowania Pociągiem		242 269
5	Czech (cs) European Train Control System		143 945
6	Dutch (nl) European Train Control System		121 274
7	Spanish (es) Sistema de control ferroviario europeo		114 257
8	Japanese (ja) ETCS		101 255
9	Chinese (zh) 歐洲列車控制系統		75 427
10	Hungarian (hu) ETCS		71 861

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

The most popular language versions of the article "ETCS" in June 2026

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	German (de) European Train Control System		9 595
2	English (en) European Train Control System		8 191
3	French (fr) Système européen de contrôle des trains		1 225
4	Polish (pl) Europejski System Sterowania Pociągiem		795
5	Japanese (ja) ETCS		604
6	Czech (cs) European Train Control System		563
7	Dutch (nl) European Train Control System		338
8	Chinese (zh) 歐洲列車控制系統		320
9	Hungarian (hu) ETCS		305
10	Russian (ru) Европейская система управления движением поездов		271

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

Language versions of the article "ETCS" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	German (de) European Train Control System		422
2	English (en) European Train Control System		254
3	French (fr) Système européen de contrôle des trains		108
4	Dutch (nl) European Train Control System		88
5	Polish (pl) Europejski System Sterowania Pociągiem		47
6	Hungarian (hu) ETCS		37
7	Czech (cs) European Train Control System		36
8	Spanish (es) Sistema de control ferroviario europeo		19
9	Japanese (ja) ETCS		17
10	Chinese (zh) 歐洲列車控制系統		17

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

Language versions of the article "ETCS" with the highest AI in June 2026

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	German (de) European Train Control System		7
2	French (fr) Système européen de contrôle des trains		3
3	Polish (pl) Europejski System Sterowania Pociągiem		2
4	Catalan (ca) ETCS		1
5	English (en) European Train Control System		1
6	Spanish (es) Sistema de control ferroviario europeo		1
7	Finnish (fi) Eurooppalainen junien kulunvalvontajärjestelmä		1
8	Hungarian (hu) ETCS		1
9	Serbian (sr) Европски систем контроле возова		1
10	Czech (cs) European Train Control System		0

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

Language versions of the article "ETCS" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	German (de) European Train Control System		1 109
2	French (fr) Système européen de contrôle des trains		718
3	English (en) European Train Control System		564
4	Chinese (zh) 歐洲列車控制系統		298
5	Japanese (ja) ETCS		157
6	Dutch (nl) European Train Control System		156
7	Hungarian (hu) ETCS		127
8	Polish (pl) Europejski System Sterowania Pociągiem		105
9	Czech (cs) European Train Control System		101
10	Spanish (es) Sistema de control ferroviario europeo		41

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#	Language	Value
ca	Catalan ETCS
cs	Czech European Train Control System
da	Danish European Train Control System
de	German European Train Control System
el	Greek Ευρωπαϊκό Σύστημα Ελέγχου Αμαξοστοιχιών
en	English European Train Control System
es	Spanish Sistema de control ferroviario europeo
fi	Finnish Eurooppalainen junien kulunvalvontajärjestelmä
fr	French Système européen de contrôle des trains
hr	Croatian ETCS
hu	Hungarian ETCS
id	Indonesian Sistem Kontrol Kereta Eropa
ja	Japanese ETCS
ko	Korean 유럽 열차 제어 시스템
nl	Dutch European Train Control System
pl	Polish Europejski System Sterowania Pociągiem
pt	Portuguese Sistema europeu de controlo ferroviário
ru	Russian Европейская система управления движением поездов
sr	Serbian Европски систем контроле возова
sv	Swedish ETCS
tr	Turkish Avrupa Tren Kontrol Sistemi
zh	Chinese 歐洲列車控制系統

Best Rank

Japanese: #65398 02.2010

Global: #51226 07.2013

Best Rank

Japanese: #38199 03.2021

Global: #5446 10.2003

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