November 3, 2015 | Commuter Rail, Headlines, Technology
(Source: Boston Globe, November 3, 2015) BOSTON — The Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority plans to spend an estimated $451.3 million to install technology meant to prevent accidents such as the Amtrak derailment that killed eight people in Philadelphia in May....
November 2, 2015 | Commuter Rail, Headlines, Technology
(Source: Orange County Register, October 31, 2015) SANTA ANA, Calif. — Metrolink commuter trains running from Anaheim to Riverside and from Riverside through Buena Park aren’t up and running with a new federally mandated collision-avoidance technology, but they might...
November 2, 2015 | Headlines, Technology
(Source: Record-Journal, November 1, 2015) MERIDEN, Conn. — Back in May, an Amtrak train derailed in Philadelphia, killing seven people. In February, a Metro-North train derailed north of New York City, leaving six dead. In December 2013, another Metro-North train...
November 2, 2015 | Headlines, Technology
(Source: www.nj.com, November 1, 2015) NEWARK, N.J. — The U.S. House may have a lot on its plate, with the election of a new speaker and fending off critical government shutdown deadlines. But never underestimate the power of Congress to move fast to do the bidding of...
October 30, 2015 | Headlines, Technology
(Source: www.nj.com, October 29, 2015) NEWARK, N.J. — President Obama on Thursday signed legislation giving passenger and freight railroads up to three more years to install an automatic speed control system that safety investigators said could have prevented the...
October 29, 2015 | BNSF, Headlines, Technology
(Source: Seattle Times, October 28, 2015) SEATTLE, Wash. — Insitu, the Bingen, Wash.-based unmanned aerial systems subsidiary of Boeing, began Sunday a weeklong trial using its ScanEagle surveillance drone to inspect a 132-mile stretch of railway in New Mexico. Full...
October 29, 2015 | Headlines, Technology
(Source: The Hill, October 29, 2015) WASHINGTON, D.C. — Senate Democrats are railing against an extension of a deadline for automating trains on most of the nation’s railways that was approved by Congress this week, over the objection of safety advocates. Full...
October 29, 2015 | Headlines, Technology
(Source: Politico, October 28, 2015) WASHINGTON, D.C. — Congress on Wednesday quietly gave the railroad industry what it demanded: a three- to five-year delay in the deadline for installing the kind of safety technology that could have prevented last spring’s deadly...
October 28, 2015 | BNSF, Headlines, Technology
(Source: Insitu press release, October 28, 2015) BINGEN, Wash. — Launching at a tower site near Vaughn, New Mexico, Insitu accomplished the first commercial beyond visual line of sight operation with an Unmanned Aerial System (UAS) in the contiguous 48 states. The...
October 28, 2015 | Headlines, Technology
(Source: Washington Post, October 27, 2015) WASHINGTON, D.C. — The House on Tuesday appended a deadline extension being sought by the railroad industry to a must-pass highway funding bill and approved both, delaying for at least three years a safety measure that could...
