The National Transportation Safety Board says a door control system on a Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority Red Line train failed to work properly in connection with the death of a Boston man, ...

BOSTON, Mass. (SHNS)–A Red Line train’s door safety system failed when a passenger became trapped in a fatal accident last month, federal investigators announced Monday. In its preliminary ...

The 39-year-old MBTA passenger whose arm got trapped in a Red Line train’s door and ended up being dragged to his death was trying to exit through doors that failed, according to the feds’ preliminary ...

The complex and demanding railway transportation sector requires computer hardware and software that is secure, durable and offers high performance. Many of the currently evolving technologies in the ...

Metro passengers might not notice a small change to their ride that is shaving seconds off their commute at each station, but transit leaders hope it is a precursor to improvements that soon will ...

The National Transportation Safety Board says a short circuit in a door control system led to a passenger’s death on the Red Line last month. Robinson Lalin, 39, of Boston died when his arm became ...

High-speed train control systems are at the forefront of modern railway engineering, integrating advanced computing, communication networks and control strategies to ensure navigation precision, ...

Requirements for safety-relevant Human Machine Interfaces (HMIs) for train operators are becoming more common around the world. The evolution toward safety-relevant HMIs for train control is already ...

WTF?! Joining the list of organizations still using archaic technology is the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency (SFMTA), which has a train control system still reliant on floppy disks.

Indian Railways is set to undertake a major upgrade of its over 100-years-old train control systems in a bid to improve operational efficiency and safety across the world’s fourth-largest railway ...

ATHENS, April 28 (Reuters) - (This April 28 story has been corrected to clarify that the entire train fleet on the main rail axis, not the entire train network, will be equipped with ETCS by September ...