Capital Metro, a transport operator in Central Texas, approved a contract with Modern Railway Systems, Inc. to design, build and commission the automatic safety train control system known as Positive Train Control (PTC).
The approved contract allows Modern Railway Systems to complete a portion of the work within 15 months, which will make the agency eligible to apply for a two-year extension to the December 2018 PTC deadline to complete the rest of the system.
Capital Metro’s commuter rail system is regulated by the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) which, in response to Congress, mandated that all commuter rail systems install a PTC system by December 31, 2018. PTC systems are designed to prevent derailments or train-to-train collisions, and to ensure trains are not guided onto the wrong track due to a switch being left in the wrong position.
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