PTC: A merger of technology and human ingenuity at NS and across the industry

Описание: Norfolk Southern is on track with its PTC Implementation Plan to meet the 2018 and 2020 goals. PTC, or Positive Train Control, is technology designed to prevent train-to-train collisions, derailments caused by excessive speed, unauthorized incursions by trains into sections of track where repairs are being made, and movements of a train through an improperly aligned track switch.

The U.S. Congress has required that railroads install PTC on tracks that carry passenger trains or toxic-by-inhalation materials. NS is implementing PTC along approximately 8,000 track miles at a projected cost of around $1.8 billion. The installation of PTC capability involves work on thousands of locomotives; a large new wireless communications network; and thousands of trackside devices connected to signals, switches, and other wayside devices.

Here is an update on Norfolk Southern's progress at the close of 2016:

The NS Engineering team has installed:
•2,758 radio towers
•2,976 wayside interface units
•68 switch position monitors
•2,685 wayside radios
•321 base station radios

The NS Mechanical team has installed and readied:
•2,108 locomotives with onboard computers
•2,178 locomotives with PTC displays
•1,468 locomotives with PTC-capable event recorders
•1,304 locomotives with PTC-220 radios

•More than 1,300 locomotives are fully-equipped and PTC-operable.
•NS is operating PTC trains in revenue service demonstration runs across 1,020 miles of track.
•NS has trained more than 10,350 employees and their supervisors on job-specific PTC material.

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