New Jersey Transit President and CEO Kevin Corbett is a featured speaker at Railway Age’s Next-Gen Train Control Conference, presented jointly with Parsons. Corbett’s leadership and experience in project management was largely
Railway Age’s October 2022 issue is now available digitally, covering how the New York Metropolitan Transportation Authority and Brightline are building for the future and presenting the 2023 Railroad Financial Desk Book.
Railway Age has extended the deadline for its sixth annual Women in Rail awards program. Nominate a visionary woman in the rail industry (or yourself) by 5 p.m. ET on Tuesday, October 4, 2022. Don’t delay!
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
At Railway Age’s Next-Gen Train Control Conference, to be presented jointly with Parsons on Oct. 20-21 in Philadelphia, PATH Director and General Manager Clarelle DeGraffe will provide an ATC project update. Hearing from DeGraffe and other leading experts is just one reason to attend. Need more? Here are 10.
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.”
Do you know a visionary woman in the rail industry? Nominate a colleague or yourself for the sixth annual Railway Age Women in Rail awards.
The September 2022 issue of Railway Age is now available digitally, with a focus on locomotive rebuild technology and passenger rail in the Windy City—plus the Product Innovations Showcase 2022.
The Federal Railroad Administration on July 27 issued a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) on train crew size that basically mandates a minimum of two people in the locomotive cab, with limited exceptions. The Association of American Railroads, echoing many industry observers, is calling the potential rule a politically motivated move with “a complete absence of safety justification.” The NPRM (downloadable below) also applies to most passenger trains that come under FRA jurisdiction.
Hitachi Rail has completed a yearlong pilot evaluating Waltham, Mass.-based Humatics Corporation’s rail navigation system for possible integration with its CBTC (communications-based train control) technology. Also, Ra’anana, Israel-based Rail Vision Ltd.’s track-obstacle detection system will be tested as part of Rio Tinto Iron Ore’s AutoHaul® project in western Australia; Hitachi is the project’s lead technology integrator.