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Transportation experts have said the PTC braking system would have prevented the fatal Amtrak derailment in Philadelphia earlier this year. The system was also put into place between Philadelphia to Washington, D.C. the previous week.
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The agency received 30 eligible applications requesting $90.6 million, nearly four times the $25 million Congress provided in the appropriations bill that funds FRA for Fiscal Year 2016.
Read More →The activation puts 72.5% of the LIRR’s 305 total route miles now operating in PTC.
Read More →The NCTD board of directors approved the contract at a recent meeting and Herzog received the "notice to proceed" with Phase 1 of PTC system development in August.
Read More →Will re-signal SMRT Corp. Ltd.’s North-South and East-West lines, plus an extension, with its SelTrac communications-based train control solution.
Read More →The divestiture was part of the comprehensive company action plan that Alstom announced in November 2023, aiming at reinforcing its balance sheet.
Read More →Work to install PTC infrastructure on the MBTA Commuter Rail network is in various stages of completion and testing on each line.
Read More →A $120 million contract was awarded to Parsons Transportation Group to manage and integrate positive train control technology on Metrolink's 512-mile system. Metrolink was the nation's first rail operator to get approval from the FRA on its PTC implementation plan.
Read More →The achievement means agency can apply for an alternative schedule to have PTC fully operational by the end of 2020.
Read More →Three people were killed, and dozens were injured. Federal investigators say they are looking into whether the engineer was distracted.
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