With three fatal train accidents in recent weeks, there's been a cry for Positive Train Control, a system that will automatically stop trains before certain types of accidents can happen. WIlliam ...

Last week's Amtrak crash outside Philadelphia that killed 8 people has re-ignited the call for a nationwide network of “positive train control” systems. Voices have been clamoring about whether or not ...

Authorities cite excessive speed as the possible cause of Tuesday's deadly Amtrak derailment in Philadelphia. But if the speed was an engineer's mistake, that error ...

The Amtrak passenger train didn’t have a safety technology called the positive train control activated at the time it derailed in Washington state, said Richard Anderson, the rail service’s president ...

The NTSB is investigating the role PTC might have played. — -- The New Jersey train crash that left one woman dead and 114 others injured has re-ignited a debate over an automatic train-braking ...

YONKERS, N.Y.-- The revelation that a New York City commuter train derailed while barreling into a sharp curve at nearly three times the speed limit is fueling questions about whether automated ...

For years, the railroad industry, safety advocates and lawmakers have known that we need to implement positive train control (PTC) to prevent collisions and derailments on passenger-train lines.

High-speed train control systems are at the forefront of modern railway engineering, integrating advanced computing, communication networks and control strategies to ensure navigation precision, ...