Grantees will receive a Notice of Grant Award (NGA) package consisting of standard provisions, general provisions and award materials pertaining to each grant or cooperative agreement award. The NGA package coversheet will contain the specific details...

High Speed Equipment Test Support

Diesel Multiple Unit (DMU) Self-propelled Passenger Rail Car

Project is funded to demonstrate that Diesel Multiple Unit (DMU) self-propelled passenger rail car technology fully meets the existing...

The process of Technology Transfer is an area of responsibility undertaken in the Train Occupant Protection Research Program to encourage the utilization of research results by the railroad industry, leading to safer and more efficient rail...

The conducting of risk assessments serves as both the starting point in any research program and can be used to justify the cost/benefits necessary to develop either regulatory or industry standards or revisions to existing standards. There are three...

This aspect of the research focuses on ensuring that passengers and crew members can safely ride out a collision or derailment event. To do so, it is necessary to minimize the secondary impact forces that occupants experience as they strike interior...

This subprogram research area is directed at the safe and efficient passenger rail car evacuations during various emergency scenarios. A goal is to determine, if time-based evacuation criteria can replace existing prescriptive rules on the number and...

Fire safety...

Current Projects:

A series of full-scale quasi-static and dynamic tests are planned on conventional equipment of various designs to establish the baseline level of performance to loading conditions established based on a review of historical...

Opportunity/Problem:

The FRA’s goal in supporting wayside detector systems has been to promote improved safety and performance through the appropriate and optimal application of automated inspection technologies to detect...

On March 20, 2015, the DOT Chief Counsel, Kathryn B. Thompson, and DOT CIO Richard McKinney issued the ...