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,” ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. San Francisco transit officials have approved a $212 million overhaul of its aging train control system — which for decades has ...

The San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency (SFMTA), which runs the city’s Muni Metro light rail, claims to be the first US agency to adopt the train control system it currently uses, which has ...

Metro planned to bring faster, smoother automated trains to the system’s Green Line this weekend. But the agency is being blocked by its safety watchdog, which said the rail system cannot expand ...

Alstom has secured a €210m ($217.2m) contract to supply 15 additional automated metro trainsets to Metropole Europeenne de Lille (MEL). These trainsets, equipped with the Urbalis Fluence signalling ...

In brief: The San Francisco Muni Metro's Automatic Train Control System (ATCS), one of the few remaining major systems still using floppy disks, is dropping the archaic technology as part of a massive ...

San Francisco’s Automatic Train Control System (ATCS) still runs on data that is stored on floppy disks. A $212 million overhaul will move the tech five generations ahead, according to officials. If ...

WASHINGTON - A train control system that relies solely on the operator's actions led to an incident in which a Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority light rail vehicle hit an end-of-track ...

The San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency, which runs the city's Muni Metro light rail, claims to be the first US agency to adopt floppy disks. But today, the SFMTA is eager to abandon its ...