The safety oversight group for Metro says the rail system is not ready to resume automatic train control, citing problems during overnight testing. Metro has been testing trains in a computer ...

The automatic train control system “provides critical safety protections” for train movement and roadway workers, including safe train separation, prevention of overspeed derailments, fail safe train ...

Here’s how Metro is doing it: Metro says the new automatic train control system has three subsystems. First, the ATP subsystem ensures trains are separated and tells trains how fast they can go.

The Automatic Train Control System is designed to communicate with Muni Metro trains along loop cable signal wires - a type of wireless technology from the 1980s. This technology transmits data ...

Dubai, Oct.17th,2007 (WAM) -- The Rail Agency of the Roads and Transport Authority (RTA) has adopted the Moving Block Automatic Train Control system (ATC) for the Dubai Metro. The manufacturing of ...

The system is designed to improve train safety and efficacy through automated control, facilitating effective scheduling and reducing the space between successive trains.

These systems harness sophisticated methods such as automatic train operation and model predictive control, bridging the gap between mesoscopic planning and microscopic vehicle dynamics.

The collision of three Norfolk Southern trains in Pennsylvania early this month highlights the shortcomings of the automated braking system that was created to prevent such crashes. None of the ...

San Francisco transportation officials have secured $41 million to modernize the city's subway, chiefly to overhaul a train control system that still runs on floppy disks. The money, awarded last ...

The collision of three Norfolk Southern trains along the Lehigh River early this month highlights the shortcomings of the automated braking system that was created to prevent such crashes.

The Rail Agency of the Roads and Transport Authority had adopted the Moving Block Automatic Train Control system (ATC) for the Dubai Metro. The manufacturing of which is well on schedule. Currently, ...