Port of Long Beach & Port of Los Angeles

Aerial view of cargo trains lined up at the Ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles.

Aerial view of harbour cargo containers in Southern California port near the Long Beach district. LA.

Industrial railway by the Port of Los Angeles.

Project Information

Category: Ports & Intermodal
Client: Port of Long Beach / Port of LA
Project Date: 2015 - 2016

Port of Long Beach & Port of Los Angeles

The adjacent ports of Long beach and Los Angeles handle the largest ship-to-rail intermodal traffic flows in the U.S.

For this project, RailComm provided control and communications to multiple powered switches and derails utilizing the Domain Operations Controller (DOC®) system - RailComm’s proprietary command, control, communications and information (C3i) server-based platform that supports a wide variety of integrated solutions for indication, control, access, and distribution of critical operational data across the corporate enterprise. Wireless communications were achieved utilizing RailComm’s 2.4 GHz spread spectrum RADiANT™ network of data radios to communicate between the office system, local control panels and the network of power switches and derails.

RailComm also installed DTMF control equipment allowing users to throw switches and route trains utilizing standard hand-held radios, as well as Local Control Panels (LCP) giving the users ultimate flexibility to use either the DOC® system, DTMF, or Local Control Panels to efficiently route trains via entrance / exit (NX) routing or control of single switches and derails.

The RailComm system was interfaced with an existing Train In Motion System (TIMS), which allowed users to utilize a single application to meet all of their yard control needs.