The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Volpe Center, under the direction of DOT’s Federal Railroad Administration Office of Research, Development, and Technology, conducted a research study to evaluate the effectiveness of trespass detection...

This report provides the results of the initial development of scaling laws for use in developing cost effective experimental measurements of a passenger rail car heat release rate (HRR) history as well as modeling approaches for predicting passenger...

MTRI Inc. and Michigan Technological University developed and demonstrated a drone-based system for automated inspection of grade crossings. The prototype system can determine whether vertical approach grades create a risk for vehicles to get stuck on...

The U.S. Department of Transportation (USDOT) selected the City of Kalispell, Montana, (City) to receive a Fiscal Year 2015 grant award under its Transportation Investment Generating Economic...

Clear Signal for Action (CSA) is a safety process that seeks to change safety culture through the organizational hierarchy. It is a non-regulatory, proactive risk reduction method for improving safety and safety culture, which integrates safety...