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 ...

The implementation and operation of Positive Train Control (PTC) systems, designed to prevent collisions and enhance safety in commuter railroads, come with inherent costs. However, a recent report ...

The railroad industry has installed an automatic braking system on nearly 58,000 miles of track where it is required ahead of a yearend deadline, federal regulators said Tuesday.Federal Railroad ...

U.S. Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer and U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand today announced $2,300,000 in federal funding for Long Island Railroad's Positive Train Control (PTC) system in ...

The United States Department of Transportation’s Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) said yesterday it has published a notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM) focused on regulations related to Positive ...

The latest report says that the era of building supply chains solely around cost-reduction considerations is over. Rather, a new value has taken hold—resilience. CBRE research points to a decrease in ...

This past weekend, there was another fatal crash involving a passenger train. It was the third since December. As the investigation got started, the head of the National Transportation Safety Board ...

NEW JERSEY (WABC) -- New Jersey Transit is behind in installing a critical, federally mandated safety upgrade to its rail systems, according to a new report. The Federal Railroad Administration's ...

NEW YORK (WABC) -- Following this week's deadly Amtrak train accident, 7 On Your Side Investigates examined how well transit companies are complying with a federal mandate to fully implement positive ...

Let’s resume where I left off, moving right along, next up: The NPRM intends to amend section 236.1029, PTC System Use and Failures. The provisions authorizing “temporary exceptions” to the ...