The FRA Rail Program Delivery Video Series provides grantees and loan recipients with guidance on key aspects of Rail Program Delivery. Click on the categories below to view the available videos.

Since 2001, the efforts to deploy PTC on various railroads have accelerated. These deployments mostly started with development specific to the territory and the type of service the system would be installed to operate on (e.g., passenger service)....

The regulatory requirements to establish the standards for development and use of processor-based signal and train control systems are described in 49 CFR Part 236, Subpart H. This subpart, adopted on March 7, 2005, along with amendments to 49 CFR...

Incremental Train Control System (ITCS), developed by General Electric Transportation Systems (GETS), is a communication-based signaling system overlaid on an existing signal system. This is one class of PTC that was designed to prevent train...

As pointed out in the section "PTC Analyses," “validation and verification” is a key requirement as part of a Product Safety Plan (PSP). Validation involves several analyses that have been outlined in that section; verification involves data...

Overview

Stable funding from Congress enhances the effectiveness of FRA's Research, Development & Technology (RD&T) program, now housed within the Office of Research, Data and Innovation (RDI). This funding enables multi-year...

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