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PTC 2.0: Rail Safety for Maintenance-of-Way (MOW) Workers and Vehicles By now, almost everyone in the rail industry is familiar with the four objectives that Positive Train Control (PTC) was designed to address. In particular, new standards and technologies were developed to prevent train-to-train collisions and...
Communication Redundancy for the ACSES PTC System
Operational Risks for the Northeast Corridor Rail Line Positive Train Control (PTC) is a communication-based train control system designed to prevent train accidents by automatically controlling train speeds and movements if the train operator fails to take the appropriate action. There are two main...
Streamlining Your Network Operations by Consolidating the Radio Codeline Over the PTC Network
CTC (Centralized Traffic Control) which is currently based on a very narrow licensed 900 MHz radio band is about to be abandoned because of the FCC modifying the 900 MHz band allocations. Radio hardware manufacturers are ending the production of the radios and will...
LILEE SafeRail, Complete Collision Avoidance System with Work Zone Limits Compliance
I have often been asked why we designed our LILEE SafeRail system to include not only collision avoidance functionality but also limits compliance for maintenance-of-way (MOW) equipment. The answer is simple: collision avoidance alone will not prevent the types of accidents that we seek...
PTC 2.0: Taking railroad safety beyond the original PTC
What is next in railroad safety? As of December 29th, 2020, PTC (Positive Train Control) is operational on all required freight and passenger railroad route miles. The 41 railroads subject to the statutory mandate have worked for more than a decade to achieve this...
The only complete Maintenance-of-Way (MOW) protection solution — Protect MOW vehicles after they leave tracks
How does the safety manager know what the MOW driver’s behaviors are like on the road? LILEE Systems understands that the need to protect MOW vehicle does not end after it leaves the tracks and enters the road. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA)...
Running the last mile of the PTC implementation
The U.S. operations of the Class I railroads are closer to reaching full compliance with the federal mandate to implement positive train control (PTC) by the end of December 2020, according to data from the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA). The data shows that Class I railroads...