Transportation Technology Center (ENSCO Photograph)

Supply Side: ENSCO, RazorSecure

ENSCO, Inc., announces its inaugural TTC Conference and Tour. Also, RazorSecure launches a Digital Maintenance Gateway to help protect trains from cyber-risks and improve maintenance practices.

Brightline has expanded its first and last mile service, offering riders new bi-directional fixed-route shuttles between its passenger rail stations and Miami International Airport (MIA), Fort Lauderdale/Hollywood International Airport (FLL) and Miami Beach. (Brightline Photograph)

Transit Briefs: Brightline, PANY/NJ

Brightline is now offering shuttle service to South Florida airports and Miami Beach. Also, the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey (PANY/NJ) will go forward with bus service, not rail, to link LaGuardia Airport with New York City subways and commuter railroads; has approved an AirTrain Newark (N.J.) access improvement project; and selects Alstom for an AirTrain Newark operations and maintenance services contract.

CN, headquartered in Montreal, Québec, has officially registered with the Office québécois de la langue française (OQLF) pursuant to An Act respecting French, the official and common language of Québec. (CN Photograph)

Class I Briefs: CN, CSX, KCS, NS

CN registers with the Office québécois de la langue française (OQLF) and is listed on CDP’s 2022 Supplier Engagement Leaderboard. Also, CSX updates its industrial site-selection program; UPS recognizes Kansas City Southern (KCS) for “zero controllable service failures”; Norfolk Southern (NS) donates $250,000 to an Ohio-based nonprofit delivering aid to the East Palestine community; and NS’s acquisition of Cincinnati Southern Railway stalls.

The Buckingham Branch (BBRR) operates across four divisions and 280 miles of track in Virginia. (DRPT Photograph)

FRA OKs Virginia Rail Plan

The Virginia Department of Rail and Public Transportation’s (DRPT) 2022 Statewide Rail Plan has received approval from the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA).

Chart of transportation accidents reported to the TSB in 2022. This preliminary data does not include incidents reported to the TSB. (Chart courtesy of TSB)

TSB Releases 2022 Preliminary Transportation Occurrence Statistics

The Transportation Safety Board of Canada (TSB) has published its summary of preliminary transportation occurrence statistics from 2022, showing accidents are below the five-year average for the rail, air, marine and pipeline sectors. Incidents, however, are up for rail and marine.

“UITP currently has Regional Training Centers in Europe, Asia-Pacific and Eurasia, South America and South Africa, and will look to make history with NJ TRANSIT and Rutgers CAIT by establishing the first center in North America,” New Jersey Transit reported via Twitter on March 16.

NJ Transit, Rutgers CAIT, UITP to Launch Regional Training Center

New Jersey Transit (NJ Transit), International Association of Public Transport (UITP), and the Rutgers Center for Advanced Infrastructure and Transportation (CAIT) on March 16 signed an agreement to establish UITP’s first North

Duos Technologies is a Jacksonville, Fla.-based supplier of automated railcar inspection portals (pictured) and artificial intelligence (AI) models. (Photograph Courtesy of Duos Technologies)

Supply Side: Duos, Wabtec

An existing passenger rail customer awards Duos Technologies $1.1 million in add-on upgrades to a new Railcar Inspection Portal (rip®). Also, Wabtec Transit in India is recognized as a Great Place To Work®.

Minister of Transport Omar Alghabra

Canada Investing C$18.6MM to Boost Supply Chain Fluidity

The government of Canada is allocating funding to a rail park in the Winnipeg, Manitoba, metro region, and for a Port of Nanaimo (British Columbia) study in an effort to boost supply

Starting April 1, NS will run daily service between The Port of Virginia and its regional intermodal terminal near Memphis, Tenn.

NS to Offer Daily Port of Virginia-Tennessee Service

The Port of Virginia is expanding its “westward reach” starting April 1 with new daily rail service between the port’s primary container terminals and Norfolk Southern’s (NS) regional intermodal terminal near Memphis,

Aerial photograph of the East Palestine, Ohio, derailment site, courtesy of the National Transportation Safety Board.

Ohio AG Sues NS Over East Palestine Derailment

The office of Ohio Attorney General (AG) Dave Yost on March 14 reported filing a civil lawsuit in federal court seeking to hold Norfolk Southern (NS) “financially responsible for the Feb. 3

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