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 ...

With three fatal train accidents in recent weeks, there's been a cry for Positive Train Control, a system that will automatically stop trains before certain types of accidents can happen. WIlliam ...

A 2008 train crash in Chatsworth killed 25 people and broke a long congressional stalemate on a nationwide rail safety project known as "positive train control." Twelve years later, that system is ...

The Federal Railroad Administration has called positive train control the “single-most important rail safety development in more than a century.” So why don’t we have it everywhere?

Metra is implementing Positive Train Control, a computerized system designed to help prevent crashes, and hopes to have the $400 million system installed on all its rail lines by the end of next year.

Greece aims to install remote train control systems to make its railways safer by September, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said on Monday, more than two years after the country's worst rail ...

National Transportation Safety Board investigators say Positive Train Control — a system of satellites, communication towers and complex software that makes sure trains' safely follow their ...

The Positive Train Control systems that are supposed to make trains safer have mostly not been put in place because of high price and technological hurdles.