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DOT Secretary Foxx Acknowledges PTC Is Difficult for Agencies to Implement
DOT Secretary Anthony Foxx told reporters from The Hill Oct. 12 that he is not satisfied with the rate at which U.S. railroads are implementing positive train control (PTC), but he also acknowledged that financial constraints have limited the pace of progress at public transit systems.
“In the transit agencies, it’s particularly challenging. They’re running their systems at such thin margins that the cost of getting positive train control adopted is significant relative to their budgets,” he said. “That’s not an excuse, that’s just a fact.”
Nearly $65 Million Awarded to Support Advanced Technology in Transportation
DOT Secretary Anthony Foxx announced Oct. 13 that local communities across the country will receive nearly $65 million in grants to support advanced technology transportation projects. Foxx was at the White House Frontiers Conference on the future of innovation, where he discussed how new transportation innovations are reshaping U.S. cities.
"These grants," he said, "will enable cities and rural communities to harness new technologies to tackle hard problems like reducing congestion, connecting people to mass transit and enhancing safety."
In total, the grants will be leveraged to bring almost $170 million in public and private investment to deploy smart city technologies in both large and small communities across the nation. This funding builds on U.S. DOT's Smart City Challenge, which encourages cities, federal agencies, universities and the private sector to work together making use of new technologies.
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