Brighton Park Positive Train Control
There is a Federally-mandated initiative under way to implement Positive Train Control (PTC) in the United States which would allow for track status and civil speed restriction information to be conveyed directly to the locomotive’s on-board computers and its in-cab engineers. Such controls would allow for automated braking of locomotives in the event the in-cab engineers miss seeing a restrictive signal or exceeds a posted or temporary civil speed restriction.
The Brighton Park / Pershing Main modernization project did not implement PTC in the context of providing additional automated controls over the trains which pass through this section of Chicago. Implementing PTC at Brighton Park would consist of implementing the Advanced Civil Speed Enforcement System (ACSES) and other PTC technologies which would more closely tie Rail company dispatch and control centers to on-board systems to regulate train speeds, stoppages, and permissions to proceed.
In some ways, the modernization effort at Brighton Park comprises a large necessary step between human-controlled semaphore signaling and Positive Train Control.
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