Freight Railroads Get Access to More Spectrum for Positive Train Control
The FCC Wireless Bureau approved an application by Intelligent Transportation & Monitoring Wireless to transfer parts of an automated maritime telecommunications system (AMTS) license to PTC-220, a consortium of the nation’s Class I freight railroads, for the deployment of positive…
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train control and other rail safety. One party filed an objection, which wasn’t timely, the bureau said Tuesday. “We emphasize that the waiver relief we grant today will only apply to use of the AMTS spectrum to deploy PTC and related rail safety systems in the defined rail corridors in AMTS Region 1 … thereby limiting the area of potential interference,” the bureau said. The license covers the northern Atlantic region.