Union Pacific announced that it will meet all required deadlines for installing positive train control (PTC) on its network, as the company will continue to implement, test and refine the complex suite of technologies comprising the system in 2019-20.
In the first quarter of 2018, UP announced the preparation of 8 additional track segments for PTC operations, bringing the total number of track segments to 176, or 97 per cent complete.
On number of route miles, PTC implementation is 64 per cent completed, representing 10,899 of route-miles. In addition, in the first quarter of 2018, UP has educating more than 3,300 additional employees on PTC operations, bringing the total number of employees trained to about 22,690, or 88 per cent.
Union Pacific’s PTC footprint is the largest of all North American railways, encompassing more than 27,000 route km, roughly one-third of all PTC-km.
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