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Public Transportation and Smart Growth

Crystalite

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1. I don't understand it-- Is PTC that hard to implement?

Reply to mahatmakanejeeves (Original post)

Thu Nov 19, 2015, 02:17 PM

Nov 2015

I guess I need to look more deeply into this.

I would think that little more than the technology of a smart phone is required for a train to have this system in place.

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I don't understand it-- Is PTC that hard to implement? Crystalite Nov 2015 #1

It is- radio links for every mile or two of track are necessary friendly_iconoclast Nov 2015 #2

Here's a link to a white paper on the radio needs: mahatmakanejeeves Nov 2015 #4

That white paper states that 125,000 wayside radio links will be necessary friendly_iconoclast Nov 2015 #5

Not a blanket license for each carrier? mahatmakanejeeves Nov 2015 #6

Nope. Every radio on licensed bands needs its own license, and all fixed sites... friendly_iconoclast Nov 2015 #7

Here's some explanatory material to go with this. mahatmakanejeeves Nov 2015 #3