The Federal Transit Administration has awarded the transit system BART (San Francisco) a $5 million (4,41 million euros) grant to develop new technology to protect trackside workers, that goes far beyond the existing trackside alarm technology. “It’s a $5 million grant to study and develop technology that doesn’t exist right now. It would be a system that actually stops a train if it’s approaching a worker who doesn’t acknowledge the train’s presence,” said BART spokesman Jim Allison. The new technology will send a signal to a trackside worker’s warning device when there’s a train approaching and if the worker doesn’t respond, it would automatically stop the train. The transit agency thinks it could be a “failsafe” system that would prevent any future deadly accidents involving workers on the tracks. BART will develop and test the idea over the next two years, in conjunction with UC Berkeley.
Source: sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com Photo: www.bart.gov
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