Positive Train Control Project Status
Metro-North Railroad Long Island Rail Road
January 28, 2014 CPOC
Positive Train Control Benefits
• On October 16, 2008, Congress passed the Rail Safety Improvement Act of 2008 requiring implementation of PTC by Dec. 2015.
• An approved PTC System must prevent the following: - Train-to-train collisions. - Over-speed derailments. - Injuries to workers as the result of unauthorized incursions by train into a work zone. - Movement of a train through an improperly aligned switch
1 PTC System Design
PRIMARY ACSES Safety Server Transmits Train BACK OFFICE SAFETY Dispatcher COMPUTER Temporary Speed Consoles Restrictions to Trains RWPS ACSES II Management and SYSTEM Communications Systems
ACSES II major subsystems: • On-Board (Rolling Stock) RAILROAD DATA NETWORK • Wayside (Interlocking and Right of Way Infrastructure) CELLULAR • Back Office (Temporary Speed Restriction Interlocking Status and Temporary Servers and Central Office Equipment) WiFi locations Speed Restriction • Communications (Ground Based, Land Radio Mobile Data Radio and Wireless Communications Networks) Data Radio • Roadway Worker Protection System Signal Location (RWPS) Interlocking Signal ACSES ADU COMPUTER ACSES Wayside CSS / ATC DATA Interface RADIO Unit
Signal System
Automatic Cab Speed Signal Transponder Reader In Track Transponders Control
2 What PTC Does
Interlocking
Maximum Maximum Typical Signal Block Enforce 45 mph Enforce 30 mph Authorized Speed Authorized Speed Enforce 30 to 15 mph
Train Cab Signal Protects Stop Signal PTC Protects movement of train Protection Against Passing a Stop Signal against passing a through an stop signal improperly aligned switch
Interlocking
Maximum Typical Signal Block Enforce 45 mph Enforce 30 mph Enforce 30 to 15 mph Enforce 15 mph Authorized Speed
Train Train Stop Signal Protection Against Train-to-Train Collision
Maximum Enforces 15 mph to STOP Authorized Speed Roadway Worker
PTC Protects Train PTC Protects against Overspeed Protection Against Over-Speed Derailments against on curves and unauthorized other civil Roadway Protection incursions by a restrictions. train into a work zone
Train
3 What Signaling Systems Do LIRR/MNR Have Today? • Railroads primarily rely on Automatic Speed Control (ASC) with CAB signaling – Monitors train speed – Maintains safe braking distance – Maintains train separation • Exceptions: – MNR Waterbury Branch – LIRR segments • Railroads’ ASC Improvements – Civil Speed Enforcement
4 Current MNR Cab Signal System
Poughkeepsie Wassaic
West of Hudson Waterbury Port Jervis
Cab Signal Project underway for the Port Jervis Line. Currently has an Automatic Block Wayside Signal Danbury system. Completion 2018. New Haven Brewster
Devon BR. Suffern Woodbine Yard
Peck BR. Croton-Harmon New Canaan Bridgeport Pearl River North White White Jenkins Plains Plains Curve Curve Norwalk Yonkers Cos Cob BR. Curve Stamford Walk BR.
Portchester Curve FRA EO-29 Curves and Bridges - Completed
FRA EO-29 Curves – Complete March 1, 2104
FRA EO-29 Bridges - Complete Sept., 2014 Cab Signal with Automatic Train Control Woodlawn Manual Block Spuyten Duyvil Curve
Mott Haven
Grand Central
5 Current LIRR Signal System
6 PTC Implementation
• System Integration Contract with Joint Venture between Bombardier/Siemens. • Schedule Risks. • Pilot Testing including Roadway Worker Protection System.
7 RWPS
PRIMARY ACSES Safety Server Transmits Train BACK OFFICE SAFETY Dispatcher COMPUTER Temporary Speed Consoles Restrictions to Trains RWPS ACSES II Management and SYSTEM Communications Systems
RAILROAD DATA NETWORK
CELLULAR Temporary Speed WiFi Restriction locations Communication
Signal Location Interlocking Signal Cellular & ACSES ADU WiFi EIC COMPUTER Portable ACSES Wayside CSS / ATC DATA Interface EIC RADIO Unit
Signal System EIC Device: Can be Located: -Handheld -Hi Rail Truck -Laptop -Station -Workstation
8 Meeting Compliance Date of Dec. 2015
• Rail Industry Position – Demonstrate good faith efforts – Secretary of Transportation • Proposal on waivers
9 PTC Implementation Schedule and Acceleration
• Current Negotiations/Targeted Schedule Improvements – Metro-North • Enforce Civil and Maximum Authorized Speeds from New Haven to GCT by mid-2015. • Install PTC onboard kits on 336 M7s & 138 M3s 16 to 20 months earlier for Harlem and Hudson Lines by October 2017. • Complete installation of PTC on all wayside segments 12 months earlier – by July 2017. – LIRR • Complete Installation of PTC Wayside Kits in electric territory by 12 months earlier – July 2017. • Complete Installation of PTC On-Board Kits on 836 M-7 cars 16 months earlier by May 2017.
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MNR Targeted PTC Implementation
Poughkeepsie Wassaic
West of Hudson Waterbury Port Jervis
Pascack Valley Line will be done by 7
New Jersey Transit (NJT) and 1 0 2
completed by June 2017. Port / 1 7
/ 7 Jervis Line will be undertaken 1
3 1
0 0
jointly (NJT to do rolling Syock 2 2
Danbury / /
1 1
Installation and completed by / New Haven / Brewster 7 January 2018. 3
Suffern
Woodbine Yard 7 1
0 Pilot P1
2
/ 1
Croton-Harmon / 4 New Canaan Bridgeport Pilot P2 Pearl River
Tarrytown 7 5 1 01 0 /2 North White 2 10 /
Plains 1 / 4 Norwalk
Stamford On Board Wayside 5 01 Dec. 31, 2015 129 30 Miles 6 /2 1 12
Dec. 31, 2016 255 122.3 Miles 0 2 Dec. 31, 2017 443 270.4 Miles / 1
/ Portchester
Dec. 31, 2018 533 8
6 Manual Block
1
0 2
/ MNR Pilots Complete 3/27/2016 1
/ 16 1 20 1 4/ Full Deployment of Wayside PTC Enforcement of Civil and Maximum Authorized Speed – Complete 6/15/2015 Woodlawn Enforcement of Civil and Maximum Authorized Speed – Complete 4/1/2016
8/1
/2016 Mott Haven
6
1
0
2
/
1
/ 8 Grand Central
11 LIRR PTC Targeted Implementation
Pilot 16 miles
Wayside OnBoard Dec 31 2015 63 Miles 61 Units Dec 31 2016 256 Miles 380 Units Dec 31 2017 314 Miles 499 Units
Pilot 17 miles Dec 31 2018 318 Miles 520 Units
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