The U.S. Department of Transportation’s (DOT) John A. Volpe National Transportation Systems Center (Volpe Center), under the direction of DOT’s Federal Railroad Administration Office of Research, Development and Technology, conducted a research study...

This study, conducted jointly by ENSCO, Inc. and Harris Corporation, assessed the potential benefits of applying commercially available change detection software to railway machine vision images. Change detection involves registering “Before” and “...

The U.S. Department of Transportation Volpe National Transportation Systems Center conducted a study of the effectiveness of LED-enhanced R8-8 signs in reducing incidents of vehicles stopping on the tracks. The researchers captured video at the...