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A BREAKTHROUGH YEAR

William C Vantuono

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Communication based train control (CBTC) has been under development in varying forms for the last 25 years. The article identifies some of the specific activities that seem to indicate that pieces are falling into place this year rather quickly. The following maturing U.S. projects are identified as evidence of that: the MTA New York City Transit's pilot radio transmission based CBTC system's placement into revenue service; AirTrain JFK, the first driverless CBTC-equipped rail rapid transit system's entry into revenue service; Philadelphia's SEPTA's placement of a CBTC system into revenue service in its 2.5 mile Light Rail Tunnel; San Francisco BART's Advance Automatic Train Control system's goal to increase the number of trains from 16 per hour to a minimum 30 per hour through the Transbay Tube. Additionally, freight railroads are anticipating a breakthrough for widespread implementation of interoperable, cost-effective Positive Train Control.

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Communication based train control (CBTC) has been under development in varying forms for the last 25 years. The article identifies some of the specific activities that seem to indicate that pieces are falling into place this year rather quickly. The following maturing U.S. projects are identified as evidence of that: the MTA New York City Transit's pilot radio transmission based CBTC system's placement into revenue service; AirTrain JFK, the first driverless CBTC-equipped rail rapid transit system's entry into revenue service; Philadelphia's SEPTA's placement of a CBTC system into revenue service in its 2.5 mile Light Rail Tunnel; San Francisco BART's Advance Automatic Train Control system's goal to increase the number of trains from 16 per hour to a minimum 30 per hour through the Transbay Tube. Additionally, freight railroads are anticipating a breakthrough for widespread implementation of interoperable, cost-effective Positive Train Control.

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Communication based train control (CBTC) has been under development in varying forms for the last 25 years. The article identifies some of the specific activities that seem to indicate that pieces are falling into place this year rather quickly. The following maturing U.S. projects are identified as evidence of that: the MTA New York City Transit's pilot radio transmission based CBTC system's placement into revenue service; AirTrain JFK, the first driverless CBTC-equipped rail rapid transit system's entry into revenue service; Philadelphia's SEPTA's placement of a CBTC system into revenue service in its 2.5 mile Light Rail Tunnel; San Francisco BART's Advance Automatic Train Control system's goal to increase the number of trains from 16 per hour to a minimum 30 per hour through the Transbay Tube. Additionally, freight railroads are anticipating a breakthrough for widespread implementation of interoperable, cost-effective Positive Train Control.

Key concepts: Train, Revenue, Transport engineering, Service (business), Interoperability, Transit (satellite), Telecommunications, Control (management)

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