ATO (automatic train operation) and ATC (automatic train control) systems are evaluated relative to available technology and cost-benefit. The technological evaluation shows that suitable mathematical models of the dynamics of long trains are required before substantial improvements can be made to ATO systems, and the present ATC systems are presently near optimum. The cost-benefit analysis concludes that only railroads which find CTC (centralized traffic control) economically desirable will also find that ATC offers improved operating economies. ATO does not seem economically or politically practical in the general railroad environment. A brief evaluation is made of both the contribution of the railroad locomotive to air pollution and the possible means of controlling this pollution. (DOT Abstract)


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