FCC Official Scheduled To Testify Before Senate on Positive Train Control
The Senate Commerce Committee scheduled a hearing for 10 a.m. Wednesday in 253 Russell on “on-going efforts to implement train control technology.” FCC Wireless Bureau Associate Bureau Chief Charles Mathias will testify, as will Amtrak Chief Operations Officer DJ Stadtler…
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and Robert Lauby, chief safety officer at the Department of Transportation Federal Railroad Administration. The committee said more witnesses may be added. Witnesses will “discuss the capabilities and limitations of train control technologies (including positive train control systems); the current status of the deployment and functionality of positive train control systems; and current challenges with on-going efforts to install, test, and certify positive train control systems by the December 31, 2015, statutory deadline,” Commerce said in its notice. The bipartisan leaders of Commerce have introduced legislation that would delay that deadline by five years, which has prompted some objections from Senate Democrats, who would prefer less of a postponement. Positive train control also came up Tuesday during a House Transportation Committee hearing on last month's deadly Amtrak accident in Philadelphia. Amtrak has “also committed to finish implementation of Positive Train Control on the Northeast Corridor by December of this year,” Chairman Bill Shuster, R-Pa., said in his opening statement. “Positive train control would have prevented the May 12 accident,” National Transportation Safety Board Chairman Christopher Hart testified.