03.10.2019
Artikel Nummer: 29077
Heavy haul freight train runs by itself in the USA
New York Air Brake, a US subsidiary of the Knorr-Bremse Group, has deployed its on-board energy management system to test the automatic driving capabilities of a freight train in Colorado, USA.
Driving on an 80 km long test track and with locomotive engineers riding along, the system automatically operated three locomotives and 30 loaded wagons carrying 4,725 trailing t. Solely commanded by a computer, the system managed to start and stop on uphill, downhill and flat grades.
The successful test took place in a positive train control (PTC) environment, a North America-only specification for train testing. (ben)