TransLink Director Systems Engineering William Hui will present on “The Evolution of TransLink’s ATC Program.” He will touch on how the ATC program had its roots in 2012, delivering SOGR projects, but
Senate Commerce Committee member Tammy Baldwin (D-Wisc.) has introduced a yet-to-be-numbered rail regulatory bill, the Reliable Rail Service Act (downloadable, below), which is virtually identical to a House companion bill, H.R. 8649, the Freight
The U.S. Department of Agriculture is awarding $100 million in grants through its Higher Blends Infrastructure Incentive Program to expand infrastructure for renewable fuels sourced from U.S. agricultural products (biodiesel, ethanol, etc.).
Telegraph, a Chicago-based startup offering a cloud-based operating system for railroads, shippers, logistics service providers and railcar leasing companies, has partnered with Watco to help shippers with tough logistics challenges, with a focus on rail transportation.
James J. Florio, the former Governor of New Jersey and eight-term congressman who was the principal author of the 1980 Staggers Rail Act that partially deregulated the industry, died Sept. 25. He was 85.
On the night of Sept. 16, Colorado police officers stopped a young woman driving a pickup truck, arrested her, and placed her in a police car—which the officer who made the stop had parked on active Union Pacific tracks on a crossbuck-protected crossing.
As part of ongoing sustainability initiatives, Canadian Pacific has launched a web-based carbon emissions calculator and awarded a contract for two hydrogen production and refueling facilities to support its HFC (hydrogen fuel cell) road locomotive program.
Transport for London (TfL) Commissioner Andy Byford will leave the authority at the end of October. He will be replaced on an interim basis by current Chief Operating Officer Andy Lord. Byford, nicknamed “Train Daddy” when he was President of MTA New York City Transit, confirmed that he will return to the U.S. upon leaving TfL.
The Federal Railroad Administration released on Sept. 22—six years after it was completed—a commissioned study, “Human Error Analyses Associated With Locomotive Cab Automation,” which “addressed the potential for errors that may occur during human-automation interaction with automated systems.”
Progress Rail (a Caterpillar company) announced three initiatives involving autonomous operations and train control, at InnoTrans 2022 in Berlin.