The Federal Railway Administration and rail regulators to report to Congress by the positive train control systems, or advanced technology known as PTC plans to allow only three out of 38 intercity passenger transport, passenger and freight rail that has required.
Barely four months before the deadline mandated by Congress, he was only 11 rail regulators in late 2020 they began in 2015. Others can be spotted PTC PTC system was expected to begin to assert, said.
PTC, a complex system of sensors and can slow or stop the train in time to install automatic control,
It could reach billions of dollars because of technical difficulties and high costs, which is a big challenge that.
In 2008, Congress charges the organizer of the railway, the railway is facing the possibility of the imposition of fines or suspension of service of members of Parliament in the fall of this year, failed to prolong the deadline at the end of the year, that will not affect a long time ago, he said.
The six-year transportation bill that passed the Senate this month the Obama administration to grant an extension of up to three years. But when the House of Representatives in September from their summer vacation MPs are expected to be adopted by the measure.
incomplete information provided by the railway network of the date of implementation of the PTC is difficult to estimate," said FRA report...
He can fill FRA month this December, particularly railways, it said. But this type of service, service plan offered by PTC as three rail BNSF Railway Co., Southern California metrolink and Transport Authority southeastern Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, marked. I'm going to adopt any of them.
report of the arrest of the 11 rail companies, Canadian Pacific Railway Co processor, CSX Corporation, Norfolk Southern Corporation and Union Pacific Corporation was incorporated
Eight people were killed and more than 200 injured after the derailment of Philadelphia is that it owns or controls in the busy northeast corridor segments are expected to PTC technology.
Since 1960, PTC has the support of the National Transportation Safety Board, Technology 300 deaths and more than 6,700 injured in the nearly five decades that has prevented the