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PTC Annual Report for 2015: New Jersey Transit Rail Operations

NJ TRANSIT’s PTC system is called ASES II, and is fully interoperable with and similar to Amtrak’s ACSES II system. It differs significantly from the freight-based I-ETMS system. Calendar year 2015 saw the testing of two pilot Prototype vehicles (one locomotive and one cab car), start of work on 4...

PTC Annual Report for 2015: Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority

This report represents the progress towards implementing PTC for the year 2015 on MBTA. In the year 2015 MBTA completed following milestones: 1. MBTA contracted Ansaldo STS as its PTC System Integrator to install ACSES II as the primary PTC system over the entire MBTA Commuter Rail territory....

PTC Annual Report for 2015: Maryland Area Regional Commuter

In 2015, MARC installed I-ETMS hardware on 12 locomotives*. This install did not include the Meteorcomm radio. * The term ”locomotive” throughout this document includes cab cars. ** The term “employee” includes 3rd parties who operate and maintain the MARC consists. As these are not direct...

PTC Annual Report for 2015: Long Island Rail Road

In Automatic Speed Control (ASC) territory, LIRR’s PTC system consists of Cab Signaling with ATC and ACSES II. IN non-ASC signaled territories, LIRR’s PTC system consists of wayside ABS signaling and ACSES II. For 2015, LIRR accomplished the following high level elements towards PTC compliance...

PTC Annual Report for 2015: Kansas City Terminal Railway Company

As required by RSIA08 and the Surface Transportation Extension Act of 2015 (STEA 2015), KCT submits the following annual report describing its progress towards fulfilling the goals outlined in its PTC Implementation Plan (PTCIP): This annual report is to be submitted to the Federal Railroad...

PTC Annual Report for 2015: Kansas City Southern Railway Company

KCSR’s progress with respect to Positive Train Control (“PTC”) in 2015 was orchestrated via a Program governance regime which sees a formal PTC Program executed in four phases: Mobilize, Develop, Deploy, and Sustain.  Mobilize – Introduction of the Program: Initial assignment of resources,...

PTC Annual Report for 2015: Denton County Transportation Authority

In February 2016 DCTA submitted updated PTCIP (Rev 5) with accompanying RFA to propose change of the implemented system from the originally proposed V-ETMS by Wabtec, to Alstom’s E-ATC system. DCTA will utilize the Type Approval of Enhanced Automatic Train Control (E-ATC), FRA Type Approval (FRA-TA...