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 ...

Metro’s signaling network, with some components dating back to the rail system’s earliest years, keeps trains safely spaced and moving. But as the system ages, it’s becoming harder to maintain and a ...

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 ...

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 ...

Rail transportation is costly to operate and requires heavy fixed-capital investment in track construction and maintenance. As demand grows, rail system operators can invest in network expansion by ...

(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 ...

The NTSB is investigating the role PTC might have played. — -- The New Jersey train crash that left one woman dead and 114 others injured has re-ignited a debate over an automatic train-braking ...

Trains, planes and automobiles. Embedded systems are everywhere and choosing the right RTOS for rail systems is not the same. Find out why. Trains are no longer the steaming leviathans of yesteryear ...

More than a month after a Muni N-Judah train lost control and jolted riders during a morning commute, the San Francisco ...

Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA) Metrorail has implemented improvements to its automatic train control and signals program, but “is not carrying out some key safety commitments,” ...

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 ...