Union Pacific announced that it will meet all required deadlines for installing PTC on its network. Union Pacific will continue to implement, test and refine the complex suite of technologies comprising the system in 2019-20.
In the third quarter 2018, UP prepared additional track segments for PTC operations, bringing the total number of track segments to 182 or 100 percent complete. These track segments are equipped with wayside devices such as signals, switches and radios and have defined GPS coordinates, which identify thousands of precise locations for system wide PTC coordination. Also, between July and September, the company increased by 393 the number of implemented PTC route miles, bringing the total number of route miles in PTC operations to 11,920 or 70 percent. Also, between July and September, the company educated 1,329 additional employees on PTC operations, bringing the total number of employees trained to 26,004 or 98 percent.
The operator has completed to equip its locomotive fleet (5,115 locomotives) with PTC solutions.
Union Pacific’s required PTC footprint is the largest of all North American railways, encompassing more than 17,000 route miles, roughly one-third of all U.S. PTC miles and 45 percent more required miles than the next largest railways.
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