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Thursday, January 20, 2011 GE, Tessco to develop rail technology to help prevent collisions GE Transportation and Tessco Technologies Inc. said Wednesday they've formed a partnership to develop technology designed to prevent railroad collisions. The two companies will develop positive train control and monitoring technology. Positive train control, or PTC, is the technology that all freight railroads must install by 2015 in response to the 2008 deadly crash of a commuter train and a Union Pacific train in California. GE Transportation is a unit of General Electric Co. -Bloomberg BusinessWeek For the story source: www.businessweek.com More Newswire stories Is momentum for LNG-powered shipping building? China’s largest e-commerce group to invest $4.5 bil on distribution network Terminal operator in Columbia taps APS for automated solutions NYU duo create high-tech sweatshirts that detect pollution	Click to browse past stories on these topics: Logistics Ports & Infrastructure Economic Outlook Environmental Impact Technology
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GE, Tessco to develop rail technology to help prevent collisions