RAILWAY AGE MARCH 2022 ISSUE: Since 2020, Transportation Technology Center, Inc. (TTCI) has been conducting tests to evaluate the capability of electromagnetic acoustic transducer (EMAT) ...

GM has filed a patent for a new system that will detect if a vehicle’s wheel alignment specs are within certain values, and will notify the vehicle owner if they fall outside a predetermined value.

Following a comment from Elon Musk about changing the Autopilot’s ‘Hold Steering Wheel’ alert, Tesla has released a new software update to enable the change and it clarified how they detect the hands ...

The wheels of a moving vehicle can move at different speeds, with some turning faster than others. This can cause a loss of steering control and compromise safety on the road. To mitigate this, speed ...

CN has announced a program to acquire additional monitoring equipment to enhance its strong technological base for early detection of defects. Said CN Executive Vice President and Chief Operating ...

LOVELAND — It’s top of mind since the Feb. 3 derailment on the Norfolk Southern Railway main track 1 in East Palestine, Ohio, where 11 of 38 derailed cars were carrying hazardous materials that leaked ...

TuSimple has patented a system and method for vehicle wheel detection. The technology involves training classifiers to detect vehicle wheels in images, extracting wheel data, and inferring vehicle ...

Some trains inevitably go off the rails — 1,700 of them each year in the United States, an average of five trains per day. Executives at Union Pacific know that the cause of many derailments is wheel ...