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PTC Annual Report for 2015: Alaska Railroad
AKRR finished the installation of I‐ETMS on the entire AKRR locomotive and cab car fleet of 54 units by July 2015. Freight train brake algorithm testing in the field was accomplished in May 2015 after AKRR completed all of the field validation and verification of Anchorage to Seward and Whittier...PTC Annual Report for 2015: Amtrak
Amtrak implemented its ACSES system on the NEC between New Rochelle, NY and Washington, DC in 2015. Amtrak had previously completed its PTC implementation on the Michigan Line between Porter, IN and Kalamazoo, MI. Radio Spectrum was purchased for the NEC, Harrisburg Line, Springfield Line and...Railroad Industry Modal Profile
In 2011, the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) Office of Research, Development, and Technology (RD&T) published the first edition of the “Railroad Industry Modal Profile: An Outline of the Railroad Industry Workforce Trends, Challenges, and Opportunities” in response to the DOT National...C3RS is Implementing Corrective Actions and Expanding Within the Railroad Industry
As the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) implements the Confidential Close Call Reporting System (C3RS), FRA has been sponsoring a Lessons Learned Team (LLT) that seeks to answer three questions: 1) What conditions are necessary to implement C3RS successfully? 2) What is the impact of C3RS...Evaluation of LED Sign Technology at a Passive Highway-Rail Grade Crossing
The U.S. Department of Transportation’s (DOT) John A. Volpe National Transportation Systems Center (Volpe Center), under the direction of DOT’s Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) Office of Research, Development, and Technology (ORD), conducted a research study that evaluated the effectiveness...