Passenger Trains > Computer glitch halts SEPTA Regional Rail Monday night

Software glitch brought all of Regional Rail to a standstill Monday night
October 25, 2016
Philadelphia Inquirer
by Jason Laughlin

> SEPTA Regional Rail riders all experienced an unexpectedly long
> commute Monday night when dispatchers lost the ability to log into
> the system that controls signaling on the railroad.
>
> The system's software froze from 6:18 p.m. to 6:38 p.m., said Andrew
> Busch, a SEPTA spokesman, affecting all 13 of the Regional Rail's
> lines simultaneously. Signalling systems give trains information on
> the railroad, including whether a train must stop and what speed it
> should be traveling.
>
> Dispatchers never lost contact with the trains' operators and were
> able to track the trains themselves, and ordered all trains to move
> forward to the nearest station until the problem could be resolved.
> SEPTA's Regional Rail ridership has dropped somewhat due to car
> problems over the summer, but the system still services more than
> 55,000 passengers each work day.
>
> After 20 minutes the signaling software was back online. No injuries
> or damage to any trains occurred.
>
> SEPTA is looking into why the software froze. The authority has
> contacted the software's manufacturer to trouble shoot the issue.

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Software glitch brought all of Regional Rail to a standstill Monday night

If they use Airinc, nuff said.

SP4360 Wrote:
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> If they use Airinc, nuff said.

Same system that Amtrak uses in their NEC dispatcher centers ... of course this IS SEPTIC we're talking about .....

Still, I will say it's light years ahead of the original CETC software (Chysler Defence Division) that I used back in my Amtrak NEC daze. Not surprisingly there's no mention of CETC on the Chysler history page. Considering what a clunker of a system it was I can understand why ....

 

Turn off, wait 30 seconds, restart.

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SEPTA's still leasing some MARC cars which have better seat cushions than SEPTA's Bombardier coaches.

sure seems to be a few transportation industry computer "glitches" in the last year......

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You can add Calif. DMV to the list, the system went into meltdown mode this week and a lot of  local offices are still not fixed.

goneon66 Wrote:
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> sure seems to be a few transportation industry
> computer "glitches" in the last year......
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