KCS to begin PTC testing February 29

Written by Jenifer Nunez, assistant editor
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On Feb. 29, Kansas City Southern will begin Positive Train Control (PTC) Field Integration Testing (FIT), a set of intensive tests to help validate the safety of PTC technologies and hardware in a variety of scenarios, prior to full implementation across the KCS network.

 

The railroad says the PTC team has worked diligently to prepare the New Orleans Subdivision for this testing. The team is wrapping up one phase of Verification and Validation (V&V), which consisted of validating the route, speed, critical feature locations and configuration of PTC wayside devices within the subdivision file by the geographic information systems and sgnal teams. V&V testing to date has been conducted with hi-rail vehicles.

KCS has been and continues to invest in PTC technology to ensure regulatory compliance and to support its core business objective of building upon its already strong safety culture.

 

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