Let's return now to the investigation into the deadly Amtrak derailment and its potential cause. Hari Sreenivasan picks up that part of the story. Earlier, as we heard, investigators announced a ...

(AP) - The rush to launch service on a new, faster Amtrak route near Seattle came at a deadly cost — critical speed-control technology that could have prevented a derailment was not active before the ...

New Jersey Transit, which just last month was in danger of missing a federal mandate to install automatic speed control on its trains and tracks by the end of the year, announced Friday it had met the ...

High-speed train control systems are at the forefront of modern railway engineering, integrating advanced computing, communication networks and control strategies to ensure navigation precision, ...

Ford is conducting a 12-month trial of its Geofencing Speed Limit Control system in Cologne, Germany, to test automated speed limit compliance. The experiment is confined to a number of areas in the ...

Amtrak rails between New York and Philadelphia are now equipped with a speed-control and collision-avoidance system. The system, called Positive Train Control, was activated between the two cities ...

Amtrak is considering suspending service on tracks that don’t have sophisticated speed controls by a Dec. 31 deadline, the railroad’s top executive said Thursday, threatening to disrupt operations ...

The rush to launch service on a new, faster Amtrak route near Seattle came at a deadly cost: none of the critical speed-control technology that could have prevented a derailment was active before the ...

Saturday's announcement from the Federal Railroad Administration involves the automatic train control system. The system notifies the engineer when a train is above the speed limit and automatically ...