Federal Railroad Administration announces landmark achievement with full implementation of Positive Train Control
FRA announces full implementation of Positive Train Control (PTC), two days before the Dec. 31, 2020 deadline. File photo The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) announced today that positive train control (PTC) technology is in operation on all 57,536 required freight and passenger railroad route miles, prior to the statutory deadline of December 31, 2020, set by Congress. In addition, as required, FRA has certified that each host railroad’s PTC system complies with the technical requirements for PTC systems. Furthermore, railroads have reported that...