From April 5, 2019, to August 20, 2020, the Volpe National Transportation Systems Center (Volpe) performed a series of finite element (FE) analyses of uniaxial tensile tests to calibrate material models for tank car steels (TC128) from two recent side...
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In support of industry and Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) objectives to develop methods to increase automation in freight rail operations, Transportation Technology Center, Inc. (TTCI) performed a requirements analysis and initiated a safety...
- November 6, 2020
Transportation Technology Center, Inc. (TTCI), through a program sponsored by the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA), developed the architecture and core requirements for a Positive Train Control (PTC) Track Database Auditing System (TDAS),...
- November 4, 2020
In 2009, the Federal Railroad Administration’s Workforce Development Team (FRA-WDT) conducted extensive research on this subject with railroad industry stakeholders (e.g., Class I freight and passenger railroads, shortline and regional railroads,...