can combine it all with things on the ground and put that into one simple graphic that feeds to the engineer showing him or her how fast he must get on the brakes to stop before reaching some sort of obstacle up ahead and if the engineer does not do that then all of that information through a computer system will take over his train and automatically slow it down or even stop it to avoid a problem out there. that is the positive part of positive train control, anderson. do officials have a sense of how many different types of accidents this would prevent? there was congressional analysis of this done and it was substantial. it could get rid of all of the train to train collisions and keep us from having switching errors where a switch has been changed and a conductor or engineer doesn t know it and get rid of the problem of work crews get run into by trains and more
railroad tracks. something the american association of railroad said they are determined to improve. we have invested billions of dollars and we ll continue to invest billion dollars to improve the safety. but just like that improving the tracks come with improving standards that are left up with the railroads to sky. no real government authority, said the administrator, and no real proof any of this is getting any better. which leaves towns like barrington illinois at a dangerous cross roads. anderson joins and drew joins us again. and if you look behind you see the oil tankers close to the wreck, aren t they rerouted around congested cities or train zones. they can try to do that.
of the track behind me not the northbound lanes which would have sadly prevented this crash from happening. it is a sad irony of how this system rolls out. it is very expensive and time consumering and congress is try and congress is trying to kick it down the can supposed to be in place by december 31st of this year and this is terrible news for the family that it was just on the wrong side of the tracks anderson. do we know why it was placed on that side was that side of the tracks more dangerous or do we know? we do not know that. i imagine the ntsb will have that wrapped up in the report and in how and when this gets placed first and maybe it was just scheduled to do one side and they have to keep the trains moving while they work on the tracks and just again a sad
yep. the speed limit through that there was 50 and he was doing 106 and we need to figure out why that was the case. and i understand you need to find any irregularity in the signs and signals, and not to speculate on this crash, and in other crashes, beyond human error, what else are the possibilities? well great question. and we have yet to conduct the brake examination of the train. we will be doing that in the coming days. all of the cars have just now been recovered, the rail cars. so we will be doing that. but generally, anderson we re looking at three broad areas, the human, the machine and the environment. and we ll focus on each of the areas and put everything on the table and start rolling things out as we learn more. are you you have been