The safety oversight group for Metro says the rail system is not ready to resume automatic train control, citing problems during overnight testing. Metro has been testing trains in a ...

Metro is still years away from returning to running its trains automatically, instead of manually, in the ongoing aftermath of the deadly 2009 train crash. The transit agency first has to finish ...

Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA) Metrorail has implemented improvements to its automatic train control and signals program, but “is not carrying out some key safety commitments,” ...

WASHINGTON — Metro wants to try automatic train operation again, and soon. By this December, it hopes to automate the Red Line. Automatic train operation was halted 15 years ago after the deadliest ...

Automated trains have been running on Metro’s Red Line for the past few months. But a safety organization that oversees the D.C. transit agency’s operations is against expanding automation to other ...

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, ...

San Francisco transportation officials have secured $41 million to modernize the city's subway, chiefly to overhaul a train control system that still runs on floppy disks. The money, awarded last ...

The collision of three Norfolk Southern trains in Pennsylvania early this month highlights the shortcomings of the automated braking system that was created to prevent such crashes. None of the ...

The automatic braking system railroads were required to install several years ago needs improvement to better prevent collisions, federal safety investigators said in ...

The collision of three Norfolk Southern trains in Pennsylvania early this month highlights the shortcomings of the automated braking system that was created to prevent such crashes.None of the ...