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Re: PTC
Author: J
Date: 01-16-2018 - 10:09
"Flame Away"
The shoe fits so I'll start with a few brief observations:
Daily Beast Asserts: "PTC is on most rail lines across Europe, Japan, and even in large swaths of relatively poor countries like Mozambique and India." This cursory reporting skips over a lot of the complexities. There are a variety of systems in the EU but ERTMS (European Rail Traffic Management System)is still years away. Deployment Plan
Here are two recent serious train accidents in Europe that would have been prevented with the forthcoming EU version of PTC:
February 2016 Germany - Head on Collision; 10 Fatalities - dispatcher error in signalized territory
CNN
July 2013 Spain - Overspeed Derailment; 80+ Fatalities - train was operating from an ERTMS section to a non-equipped ERTMS section.
Daily Mail
Danish ERTMS programme facing seven-year delay (November 2017)
IRJ
Dutch government delays national ERTMS rollout - January 2016
IRJ
The shoe fits so I'll start with a few brief observations:
Daily Beast Asserts: "PTC is on most rail lines across Europe, Japan, and even in large swaths of relatively poor countries like Mozambique and India." This cursory reporting skips over a lot of the complexities. There are a variety of systems in the EU but ERTMS (European Rail Traffic Management System)is still years away. Deployment Plan
Here are two recent serious train accidents in Europe that would have been prevented with the forthcoming EU version of PTC:
February 2016 Germany - Head on Collision; 10 Fatalities - dispatcher error in signalized territory
CNN
July 2013 Spain - Overspeed Derailment; 80+ Fatalities - train was operating from an ERTMS section to a non-equipped ERTMS section.
Daily Mail
Danish ERTMS programme facing seven-year delay (November 2017)
IRJ
Dutch government delays national ERTMS rollout - January 2016
IRJ
