PTC Already Widely Deployed by Major Railroads, AAR Says
At the end of 2019, positive train control was in operation across 98.5 percent of required Class I route miles, the Association of American Railroads said Tuesday. “The nation’s largest railroads remain on track to meet the final deadline for…
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full implementation of the critical safety technology, … with several railroads already operating the technology across their entire required PTC footprint,” AAR said. The deadline is Dec. 31. “For the remainder of this year, the Class I railroads will continue to focus on testing to ensure that PTC systems are fully interoperable and work seamlessly across operations as railroads regularly run across each other’s tracks,” the group said. Class I railroads have invested $11.47 billion in PTC, now covering 53,001 miles of track, AAR said.