The Muni Metro in San Francisco was recently approved for an update that would transition it from a control system using ...

The San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency (SFMTA) board has agreed to spend $212 million to get its Muni Metro light rail off floppy disks. The Muni Metro’s Automatic Train Control ...

The contract entails that Hitachi Rail will transition the ATCS from its current 5.25-inch floppy disk system to one that uses Wi-Fi and cell signals to track exact train locations. The deal is ...

The SF transportation agency's board has agreed to a $212 million deal with Hitachi Rail to overhaul the service and remove the 5.25-inch floppy disks it's been using since 1998. San Francisco ...

This past year, we've also covered efforts in Germany and Japan to leave floppy disks behind ... that the SFMTA control system uses bulkier 5.25-inch floppy drives, not standard 3.5-inch floppies ...

Use precise geolocation data and actively scan device characteristics for identification. This is done to store and access ...

In San Francisco, 5.25-inch floppy disks form the basis of the light rail control system. Hundreds of millions of US dollars are now being spent to change this. The operator of the light rail ...

The Municipal Transportation Agency board approved a new contract with Hitachi Rail to upgrade its existing train control ...

For those who owned personal computers in the 1980s and 1990s, the 5-and-a-quarter inch floppy disk was once among the most popular format for memory storage and data exchange. But the advent of ...