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Press Releases
FRA Launches Risk Reduction Safety Program
Abstract: The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) has issued a final rule, launching the Risk Reduction Program (RRP) to support an increasing...
Technical Reports
Fiber Optic Train Tracking - Phase 1
Keywords: Fiber Optic Acoustic Detection, FOAD, fiber optic, testing, North American railroad, train tracking
Abstract: The Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) contracted Transportation Technology Center, Inc. (TTCI) to test the train tracking capabilities of fiber optic acoustic detection (FOAD...
Research Results
Fiber Optic Train Tracking - Phase 1
Keywords: North American railroads, Fiber Optic Acoustic Detection, FOAD, fiber optic, wayside detection, safety
Abstract: The Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) sponsored a test conducted by Transportation Technology Center, Inc. (TTCI), in September 2017, to evaluate the capability of Fiber-...
Technical Reports
Evaluation of Fiber Optic Broken Rail Detection Systems
Keywords: Broken rail detection evaluation, fiber optic, Distributed Acoustic Sensing, DAS, track circuits
Abstract: Transportation Technology Center, Inc. (TTCI) conducted a baseline fiber optic broken rail detection evaluation on the High Tonnage Loop (HTL). Three different Distributed...
Technical Reports
Objective Evaluation of Risk Reduction from Tank Car Design and Operations Improvements – Extended Study
Keywords: Hazardous materials, probability of puncture, risk evaluation, tank car puncture resistance
Abstract: This report describes a novel and objective methodology for quantifying and characterizing how changes to tank car designs or the tank car operating environment lead to reductions...