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Signaling and Train Control
 
Services
- Conceptual, typical, preliminary, and final hardware
and software design
- Checking of third-party designs
- System and equipment specification writing and estimating
- Factory test and field test assistance, training,
and instruction
- Construction Inspection and Contruction Management
- Systems Integration.
Our demonstrated signaling and automatic train control capabilities
provide:
Signal and Train Control Operations Analyses Using
our Powerful RAILSIM® Capability or Rail Traffic Controller
- Signal capacity analysis
- Resolution of train dispatching conflicts for future
transit or freight connections
- Need for advanced signaling applications to sustain
or upgrade throughput.
Expertise and Tools for Vital Microprocessor Applications
- Controlled and automatic interlockings
- Intermediate signaling and automatic train control
- Highway crossing applications using the unique VISSIM® simulation
tool
- Quiet zones and four-quad gate solutions interfaced
with intelligent transportation
systems.
Expertise in the Entire Breadth of Track Circuit Applications
- Direct current and coded DC
- Single and double rail
AC
- Phase selective
- Single- and dual-frequency power rate coded, up to
nine aspects
- Single- and dual-carrier audio frequency analog coded,
up to 12 aspects
- Audio overlay
- Digital.
Expertise in All Levels of Signal and Automatic Train Control
- TCS, CTC, and ABS
- Continuous and intermittent cab signaling, with and
without train stop
- Continuous and intermittent train control, both manned
and unmanned
- Positive train control for railroads and commuter
lines using ACSES, ASES, and ITCS
- Vehicle and wayside centric communications-based
train control.
Expertise in Supervisory Control
- Centralized automatic train control with integrated
and non-integrated SCADA
- Computer-aided dispatching.
Expertise in Signaling Adjuncts
- Aspect charts and control lines
- Automatic vehicle identification
- EMI mitigation, bonding, current return, grounding,
and corrosion control.
Expertise in the Entire Breadth of Signaling Equipment
- Electric and pneumatic switch machines
- Color light, color position light, and position light
signals with incandescent and LED technology
- Position detection, equipment malfunction detection,
and monitoring.
GFT&RS Design Tools are Powerful for Design/Build
Project System Delivery and Allow:
- Expert "up front" evaluation to lower
overall costs
- Goal setting, supplier proposal evaluation, and early
equipment purchasing.
Featured Projects:
- Advanced Civil Speed Enforcement System, National Railroad Passenger Corporation (Amtrak)
- Broad Street Subway Signal System Upgrade, Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority
- Design of Signals and Communications, San Francisco Municipal Railway
- Frankford Transportation Center Construction Support, Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority
- General Engineering Consultant Code Charts Segment I and II, National Railroad Passenger Corporation (Amtrak)
- Green Line Signal Renewal Project, Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority
- Media-Sharon Hill Priority Trolley Signal System, Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority
- North Shore Connector Project Signal and Train Control Design, Port Authority of Allegheny County
- Positive Train Control Implementation, Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority
- Wayne Junction To Glenside Systems Improvement Project, Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority
- West Coast Rail Modernization Train Protection and Warning System, WS Atkins Rail Ltd.
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