The Canadian government will be working with stakeholders and labor to implement its version of PTC, called enhanced train control.
Positive train control, also known as PTC, is a safety technology aimed at automatically stopping a freight or passenger train before a collision. This Ask Waves article describes what it is, its history and its future implications.
Nearly 92% of the U.S. Class I rail network is interoperable and close to fulfilling the federal positive train control mandate by the Dec. 31 deadline, according to FRA data.
Rail freight needs to become more truck-like as to timely inventory reporting.
The Class I’s have reached 100% compliance with three of the five categories required to reach full implementation.
The revisions encourage technology integration and encourage preventative measures, say some stakeholders.
Interoperability between host and tenant railroads nears 60% at the end of the first quarter, up from 48% in December.
The pandemic is exacerbating existing problems with vendors and software installation, according to a federal report.
Positive train control has been fully implemented on the Class I rail network, with 48% of the network able to communicate with tenant railroads.
“I think we’re at a critical juncture. Six months from now I think we’ll be able to take a closer pulse to where things are.”
Only 17 percent of the relationships between the U.S. passenger and freight railroads required to utilize positive train control technology have interoperability, meaning that the host railroad can communicate with a non-host train through the technology, according to data released by the Federal Railroad Administration.
