Vital Positive Train Control

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Vital Positive Train Control (VPTC) is the industry’s first vital stand-alone positive train control system for signaled and dark territory. Integrated communication-based train control and track management systems provide a new level of safety and efficiency preventing train-to-train collisions, enforcing speed restrictions and protecting workers under authority.
 
Vital Positive Train Control (VPTC) offers your rail network the most robust configuration of highly advanced but proven technology platforms and subsystems available today.  With commercial deployment already underway, our VPTC is the solution that is available now and ready for tomorrow.
 
The configuration of our VPTC solution reveals a sophisticated set of sub-systems that are recognized throughout the industry as providing the highest degree of control and advanced automation across broad geographic regions.  As a result, this fully integrated and flexible platform sets a new standard of safety for dark territory.
 
 
Features and Benefits

• Vital digital communications eliminate the need for read-back
• Office Safety Server (OSS) uses low radio bandwidth
• Interfaces with signals in centralized traffic control, manually monitored switches and track integrity systems in direct traffic control, and wayside defect detectors