Positive Train Control is similar to a collision avoidance system in a car, and would take control of a train if the engineer fails to stop or slow down. That's a simple explanation of PTC. Making ...

Last week's Amtrak crash outside Philadelphia that killed 8 people has re-ignited the call for a nationwide network of “positive train control” systems. Voices have been clamoring about whether or not ...

The NTSB is investigating the role PTC might have played. — -- The New Jersey train crash that left one woman dead and 114 others injured has re-ignited a debate over an automatic train-braking ...

One freight train sped through a stop signal before crashing head-on into another in the Texas Panhandle last month, killing three crew members, according to a preliminary report on the accident from ...

No matter what caused Amtrak Northeast Regional Train 188 to derail as it rounded a bend in Philadelphia, it looks like technology could have prevented the crash, a top transportation official said. A ...

A computer-based system designed to prevent train accidents has been stalled by high costs and technological hurdles. It was not being used by the train that derailed Monday in Washington state, ...

Signals were down on a South Carolina railroad where a deadly crash occurred on Sunday morning because a computerized system designed to prevent such incidents was being installed there, federal ...