• DOI:10.21949/1503503
Corpus ID: 40707399

Technical and Safety Evaluation of the Southern California Regional Rail Authority Positive Train Control Deployment Project: Challenges and Lessons Learned

@inproceedings{Placencia2017TechnicalAS,
  title={Technical and Safety Evaluation of the Southern California Regional Rail Authority Positive Train Control Deployment Project: Challenges and Lessons Learned},
  author={G. Placencia and J. Franklin and J. E. Moore},
  year={2017}
}

G. Placencia, J. Franklin, J. E. Moore

Published 2017

Engineering

Positive Train Control (PTC), often referred to as Communication Based Train Control (CBTC), has been on the National Transportation Safety Board’s (NTSB) “Most Wanted List of Transportation Safety Improvements” for several decades as a safety-enabling system. The Rail Safety Improvement Act of 2008 mandated its implementation after the September 12, 2008, Chatsworth, California, collision between trains from the Southern California Regional Rail Authority (SCRRA or Metrolink) and Union Pacific… CONTINUE READING

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