---
kind: "section"
citation: "49 C.F.R. § 236.1045"
title: "49"
number: "236.1045"
heading: "Training specific to office control personnel."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/49/236.1045"
---

# §236.1045. Training specific to office control personnel.

- (a) Any person responsible for issuing or communicating mandatory directives in territory where PTC systems are or will be in use shall be trained in the following areas, as applicable:
  - (1) Instructions concerning the interface between the computer-aided dispatching system and the train control system, with respect to the safe movement of trains and other on-track equipment;
  - (2) Railroad operating rules applicable to the train control system, including provision for movement and protection of roadway workers, unequipped trains, trains with failed or cut-out train control onboard systems, and other on-track equipment; and
  - (3) Instructions concerning control of trains and other on-track equipment in case the train control system fails, including periodic practical exercises or simulations, and operational testing under [part 217](/cfr/49/part217.md) of this chapter to ensure the continued capability of the personnel to provide for safe operations under the alternative method of operation.
- (b) [Reserved]

## Notes

### Source

Source: 75 FR 2699, Jan. 15, 2010, unless otherwise noted.

### Authority

Authority: 49 U.S.C. 20102-20103, 20107, 20133, 20141, 20157, 20301-20303, 20306, 20501-20505, 20701-20703, 21301-21302, 21304; 28 U.S.C. 2461 note; and 49 CFR 1.89.

### Source

Source: 33 FR 19684, Dec. 25, 1968, unless otherwise noted.