PORTAUlHORITY TRANS-HUDSON CORPORATION January 22, 2016 Mr. Robert C. Lauby Associate Administrator for Railroad Safety Chief Safety Officer Federal Railroad Administration Mail Stop 25 1200 New J ersey Avenue, SE Washington, DC 20590 SUbject: Port Authority Trans-Hudson Positive Train Control Implementation Plan Revision and Resubmission Dear Mr. Lauby: PATH is submitting Revision 7.0, dated December 15, 201 5, of the Positive Train Control Implementation Plan (PTCIP) through the FRA Secure Information Repository (SIR). The main change from PTCIP Revision 4, Dated November 12, 2012, which was submitted in the Docket FRA-2010-0034-0014 and approved by FRA in a response letter dated December 20,2012, are regarding the Schedule in Section 8.2. To help FRA review, PATH provides a track change version between Revision 7 and Revision 4. The attachments of this letter are: • PATH PTCIP rev 7 Clean • PATH PTCIP rev 7 with track changes from rev 4 • PATH PTCIP rev 7 Redacted Radomir Bulayev, P.E. Superintendent PA TH Power, Signals & Communications (PS&C) Division Cc: E. Altinbilek, M. Marino, C.DeGraffe One PATH Plaza Jersey City, NJ 07306 Port Authority Trans-Hudson Positive Train Control Implementation Plan December 15, 2015 Submitted pursuant to 49 CFR Part 236, Subpart I, § 236.1011 PATH Positive Train Control Implementation Plan REVISION HISTORY Date Revision Description 4/15/2010 1 Initial issue to the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) 7/9/2010 2 Updated in response to FRA letter of June 9, 2010 Updated in response to FRA letter of November 8, 2010, and 2/23/2011 3 for consistency with PTCDP dated January 20, 2011. • Updated section 1.2 to take into account Docket Number FRA-2010-0086 “FRA letter on iVPI PSP” which was added in Appendix H 11/12/2012 4 • Updated section 12 to take into account Docket Number FRA-2010-0034 “Response to Petition for Relief from the Requirements of 49 CFR 236.1006(a)” which was added in appendix G. • Updated section 1.1.2.1 to indicate that PTCC started to be used for revenue service train operation in August 2013. • Updated section 1.2 to include Docket Number FRA-2012- 075 which grants approval to the PATH’s Digicode PSP Revision 3, Dated June 18, 2012. • Updated section 8.2 to take into account latest project 5 schedule. 4/21/2014 (Internal) • Updated section 13 to add information about PATH submission of PTCDP and PTCSP. • Updated Appendix C Project Schedule. • Updated Appendix E: E1 Relays Rooms and Bungalows, E2 iVPI Zoning and E5 Wayside Communications Network. • Added Appendix J: Docket Number FRA-2013-TA-02 / FRA letter on CBTC Type Approval • Updated Section 8.2 to take into account the latest project 6 schedule. 3/9/2015 (Internal) • Updated Section 13: Indicated that PTCSP Revision 2.0 was created and provided to the FRA. 2 of 88 PATH Positive Train Control Implementation Plan • Section 1 and 1.8: Indicated that the Surface Transportation Extension Act of 2015 extended the date of December 31, 2015 to December 31, 2018. • Section 1.1.1: Updated that WTC has currently platforms able to accommodate 10 car trains. Also updated the number of platforms at WTC with latest construction plan. • Section 1.1.2: Updated PATH description to indicate that PATH now operates from PTCC. • Section 5: Updated to remove information about grade railroad crossing which has been removed. • Section 7: Removed a reference to the schedule. • Appendix A: Train Schedule updated with October 25, 2015 12/15/2015 7 schedule. • Appendix C: Updated project schedule • Appendix D: Updated Track Drawings with latest drawings (Revision 1, dated 5/20/2011) • Appendix E: Technical Drawings updated with selected design. • Section 8.2 Schedule updated with latest schedule information, added the employee training schedule and the remaining PTC implementation challenges. • Section 9.1 Quantity of Wayside Devices: Updated as per selected design. • Section 13 PTCDP and PTCSP Submittal Dates: Updated as per latest schedule. 3 of 88 PATH Positive Train Control Implementation Plan Table of Contents 1 Introduction ......................................................................................................................................................... 7 1.1 PATH OVERVIEW .............................................................................................................................................. 7 1.1.1 Stations ..................................................................................................................................................... 8 1.1.1.1 Employee Pick-up/Drop-off................................................................................ 9 1.1.2 Overview of Existing Signal System........................................................................................................ 9 1.1.2.1 PATH Network Control .................................................................................... 10 1.1.3 Train Dispatchers ................................................................................................................................... 14 1.1.4 Harrison Yard ......................................................................................................................................... 14 1.1.5 Interface with Existing Private Grade Crossings .................................................................................... 14 1.2 PTC SYSTEM OVERVIEW ................................................................................................................................. 14 1.3 ORGANIZATIONAL RELATIONSHIPS .................................................................................................................. 17 1.4 PROCESS FOR REQUESTING AN AMENDMENT OF A PTCIP [§ 236.1009(A) (2) (II)] .......................................... 19 1.4.1 System Safety Certification Board ......................................................................................................... 20 1.4.2 Working Groups ..................................................................................................................................... 20 1.4.3 Updating the PTCIP ............................................................................................................................... 20 1.4.4 Configuration Management .................................................................................................................... 21 1.4.4.1 PATH Configuration Management ................................................................... 21 1.5 GOALS AND OBJECTIVES .................................................................................................................................. 21 1.6 SUCCESS CRITERIA .......................................................................................................................................... 22 1.7 APPLICABILITY ................................................................................................................................................ 23 1.8 DOCUMENT OVERVIEW .................................................................................................................................... 24 1.9 ABBREVIATIONS, ACRONYMS AND DEFINITIONS ............................................................................................. 25 1.9.1 Abbreviations and Acronyms ................................................................................................................. 25 1.9.2 Definitions .............................................................................................................................................. 26 2 Applicable Documents ...................................................................................................................................... 32 3 Functional Requirements [§ 236.1011 (a) (1)] ................................................................................................. 33 3.1 CBTC SYSTEM................................................................................................................................................. 35 3.1.1 Automatic Train Supervision ................................................................................................................. 35 3.1.2 Data Communications Subsystem .......................................................................................................... 35 3.1.3 Zone Controller ...................................................................................................................................... 36 3.1.4 Transponders .......................................................................................................................................... 37 3.1.5 Carborne CBTC Equipment ................................................................................................................... 37 3.2 BASIC CBTC FUNCTIONS ................................................................................................................................. 38 3.2.1 Localization ............................................................................................................................................ 38 3.2.2 Sieving ................................................................................................................................................... 40 4 of 88 PATH Positive Train Control Implementation Plan 3.2.3 Virtual Blocks and Train Tracking ......................................................................................................... 41 3.2.3.1