Software issues are being blamed for the latest delay by NJ Transit to implement a $302-million positive train control (PTC) system. Parsons, the agency’s primary PTC contractor, reported that ...

The complex and demanding railway transportation sector requires computer hardware and software that is secure, durable and offers high performance. Many of the currently evolving technologies in the ...

PTC is one component of Communication Based Train Control, described as a more comprehensive signal system that is currently being installed to replace a fixed-block system that limits the movement of ...

In transit control centers, dispatchers rely on multi-monitor displays and video walls as they manage the movement of trains traversing the nation’s rail systems. This universal technology ...

(TNS) — San Francisco transportation officials moved a step closer this past week to modernizing the train control system that runs the Muni Metro system, eventually ridding it of a system that uses ...

infoteam Software AG and MEN have teamed-up closely to implement an evaluation version of FlexiSafe for the menTCS safe train control system. The evaluation software allows fast and uncomplicated ...

A computer-based system designed to prevent train accidents has been stalled by high costs and technological hurdles. It was not being used by the train that derailed Monday in Washington state, ...

The Amtrak passenger train didn’t have a safety technology called the positive train control activated at the time it derailed in Washington state, said Richard Anderson, the rail service’s president ...

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork)-- The MTA says the Long Island Rail Road and Metro-North will have positive train control (PTC) fully in place by the end of the year. The safety system can slow down a train's ...