Transportation Industry

Amtrak

Railway Age, June, 2008

Amtrak: Awarded a contract to ARINC, Inc. for a new CETC (Centralized Electrification and Traffic Control) system for Amtrak's Northeast Corridor operations that will provide Amtrak with a capability to improve the efficiency of train operations and traction power energy management. The new CETC system will be based on ARINC's Advanced Information Management[R] (AIM[R]) software platform, with a fully redundant architecture supporting multiple control centers and associated emergency backup centers.

It will have the capability to operate the entire NEC from any of several centers located throughout the Northeast, and will support train dispatching from Washington, D.C. to Boston. In addition to Amtrak trains, the system will be used to dispatch Norfolk Southern and CSX freight traffic and SEPTA, MARC, NJ Transit, and VRE commuter trains.

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