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News Archive

  • November 3, 2019

    A railroad is required by Federal Railroad Administration...

  • November 3, 2019
  • November 2, 2019

    Research efforts in the Passenger Rail Equipment program area focus on the development and improvement of rail equipment. The rail vehicle is integral in the protection of train occupants. The structural integrity of rail vehicles is very important....

  • November 2, 2019

    CTIL thumbnail.The CTIL is a national...

  • November 2, 2019

    A CTIL thumbnail.FRA makes the CTIL...

  • November 2, 2019
    A railroad in the woods.

    Are you aware...

  • November 2, 2019

    Learn about attention first-hand from two operators who lived through an actual rail misadventure. This video provides different perspectives of a near-fatal incident that occurred because of ...

  • November 2, 2019

    One domain of HSI that offers considerable potential to assist railroads in understanding and applying knowledge related to human performance is Human Factors Engineering (HFE). 

    Human Factors Engineering...

  • November 2, 2019

    What is user-centered design?

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  • November 2, 2019

    Rapid prototyping (RP) is a research and development process used quickly builds rough, then more refined, versions of a solution following the “spiral design” process described on the Human Systems Integration page. To build a display, for example,...