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Miles per hour twice posted speed limit when it jumped rails in spain in 2013 79 people killed. speed to blame in the crash of the new york commuter train that killed four. unlike on airplanewise two pilots in the cockpit the train engineer is often alone in the cab aided by positive train control or ptc, an electronic system which can take control of the train if it is traveling too fast. sections of the northeast corridor from new haven, connecticut to boston and philadelphia to washington have ptc installed. not on the stretch of track where amtrak train 188 took a curve too quickly. >> we ...

Engineer, if the train seems to have not noticed a signal or if the train is speeding, right? if the train engineer doesn't respond to that signal, positive train control can override the human. override that locomotive engineer and automatically slow the train down or stop the train by remote control. this sort of system does require equipment upgrades to trains, putting a lot of basic train infrastructure on the grid. it requires some gps technology. this is not like learning to live on mars, right? this is basic kind of atari level computerized safety systems for america's trains, and they ...

That type of system is designed to enforce the civil speed to keep the train below its maximum speed. and so we have called for positive train control for many, many years, it's on our most wanted list, congress has mandated that it be installed by the end of this year, so we are very key on positive train control. we feel that had such a system been installed, this accident would not have occurred. >> had the system been installed, this accident would not have occurred. this is not a mystery, and this is also not hard, this is not rocket science. this is not desalon ating the ocean. this is s...

Accounted for all of the people that may have been on that train, as i think you were trying to indicate in your earlier segment, a number of people bought tickets, that does not necessarily mean that all of those individuals actually were on the train, we're trying to sort through all of that data and information using the amtrak manifest of customers, and people who bought tickets, versus the folks that we served, and transported last night. with incredible support by the philadelphia fire department, police department, ems personnel, septa, mass transit organization. there was a massive lif...

>> i have to ask, last night after the train derailed after it started to become clear how big of an incident this was, how did your office alert local hospitals that they were about to receive dozens of patients, maybe even hundreds of patients, people seeking treatments all at once. logistically, did you have a plan for how something like that worked? >> yeah. we had a couple of plans that we had to implement last night. coincidentally, we've been in the process of finalizing the city's mass casualty plan and monday we did a workshop and exercise for that plan. we were really well prepared f...