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Hyderabad Metro with CBTC tech can also be ‘driverless’ Updated: Updated: With software tweaks and infrastructure upgradation, we can also run driverless trains says HMR MD Share Article AAA The role of a metro train pilot inside the cabin is limited to opening or closing of doors or braking in case of any emergency.   | Photo Credit: ; - G_RAMAKRISHNA With software tweaks and infrastructure upgradation, we can also run driverless trains says HMR MD Delhi Metro may have become the first ...

December 18, 2020 NJT PTC Arrives JIT Written by William C. Vantuono, Editor-in-Chief New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy announces that NJ Transit has completed all the requirements for the installation, testing, and training of Positive Train Control at the Meadows Maintenance Complex in Kearny, N.J., Dec. 18, 2020. In New Jersey Transit’s epic struggle with implementing Positive Train Control by the Dec. 31, 2020 federal deadline, the agency came i...

Government this time says amtrak service may not be rea in-stated until automatic train control is put this place. so guess what they did? they put it in over the weekend. so not only is it inexpensive, it is easy to install. and every time they do it after there is blood on the tracks. every time. it would be nice if they actually maybe looked at all the different curves where train speed would affect a derailment and put automatic train control in before people die. that would prevent people d...

Myself. everybody was talking about, hey, we have this new advanced system coming on by the end of the year. >> right. thats a little bit more complicated. i think a little bit more expensive. >> but what is available now? >> automatic train control. >> and what does that do? >> thats been around for decades and dwek deckecades. >> you said the 1930s. >> the train is stopped if its going too fast and there is no response. and bottom line is if you look at the history of like three major derailme...

This automatic control. service was restored between washington and new york city this morning. that automatic train control installed before -- i mean this was like a week. if it can be installed that quickly, then why wouldnt it already have been installed on this dangerous curve, j.p.? >> well the investigators talked about the curve being 100-something miles an hour and the other not so much. but we got a serious situation in the press, we got people talking about it all over the united stat...

A look at the local picture. one of the things in the presidents budget is almost a billion dollars annually to put in ptc across not only the amtrak system, but also -- >> how about automatic train control that costs a lot less? >> again deploy that today. again, amtrak will have to speak more for its own decisions on their part. but im telling you the fra has glanded that they put atc in place for of the northeast corridor and thats what is happening today. >> secretary anthony foxx, thank you...

Get back to business in new york in the most efficient way i know. >> i dont mind getting back on a train. theyve assured us in correspondence to passengers it will be a safe way to travel. >> track officials said the train would be in complete compliance including using automatic train control. this morning on "morning joe." >> we are also taking additional looks at system to insure were doing everything possible. we are looking at things like emergency orders. you may see actions in the next s...

Youre looking at live pictures on board an amtrak train this morning, the first train in the restored service between philadelphia and new york city. six days after that deadly derailment, full service along the northeast corridor is back this morning reopening a critical pipeline for commerce and travel. and joining us now from washington secretary anthony foxx of the u.s. department of transportation. good to have you on this morning. >> thank you me came pika. >> amtrak got up and running pre...

>> so lawrence lets me show you how easy it is to install automatic train control. of course fra says amtrak could in the resume service until they got automatic -- guess where it is now? in place. >> on the big curves. >> over the weekend. over the weekend they installed it. so service is up and running today. and so if he was going to come on and say service is up and running, im not celebrating. i dont feel safe. eight people died last week and it could have been prevented. does anyone disagr...

Control, lets talk about that fix, if i could, because i have a couple of questions when you look at sort of the background here. you started at boston. given the fact that automatic train control could have prevented this accident, you look at boston 1990, 70 plus injured and federal railroad administration mandates that automatic train control is put in place on that curve. and a few others and its done. and then you go to new york, 2013 the metro authority derailnorth derailment, four people ...