Ascent Signal LLC

Provides comprehensive engineering for railroad signaling, communication, and train control systems across passenger, freight, and light rail applications.

• Train Control System Engineering

  Engineers Positive Train Control (PTC), Centralized Traffic Control (CTC), and Automatic Block Signaling solutions to enhance rail network safety.

• Rail Transit Communication Systems

  Develops fiber optic and radio communication networks, including path analysis, bandwidth evaluation, and complete dispatch office layouts.

• Grade Crossing Systems

  Formulates design specifications for quiet zones, motion detection, constant warning circuits, and active traffic signal preemption.

• Light Rail Electrification and Signaling

  Specifies block structures, wayside fiber infrastructure, traction power distribution systems, and overhead contact networks.

Delivers lighting design, fixture selection, and photometric analysis for municipal, utility, and transportation infrastructure.

• Illumination Controls and Dimming

  Designs automated control schedules, intelligent dimming architectures, and utility distribution circuits.

• Infrastructure and Architectural Lighting

  Provides illumination systems for highways, freeways, municipal streets, ornamental bridges, runways, and recreational parks.

• Luminaire Cost-Benefit Evaluations

  Assesses traditional high-pressure sodium and metal halide configurations against modern light-emitting diode options.

Engineers integrated automation architectures to control, monitor, and acquire data from remote field-located devices.

• Pump Station Automation

  Engineers supervisory control systems, remote data acquisition, and lift station controls for water management infrastructure.

• Access Control and Parking Revenue

  Creates automated fee collection platforms, secure gated entries, and localized surveillance systems for parking structures.

• Intelligent Transportation Systems

  Develops dynamic and changeable message signs, public information systems, and integrated traffic signal controls.