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This report uses signal detection theory to quantify the sensitivity of two common track inspection systems (manual visual inspection via a hi-rail vehicle and automated track geometry inspection). Quantifying the sensitivity of such systems can provide baseline input data for risk-based,...
FRA announces the fifty-seventh meeting of the RSAC, a Federal Advisory Committee (Committee) that develops recommendations on railroad safety regulations and other railroad safety issues through a consensus process. This meeting has been rescheduled from January 26, 2017, the previously announced...
The Kansas Test ~~rack (KTT) was comprised of nine .differen~tra'Cksystems,
, which were built on a: designed embankment. The KTT subgrade experienced prema.ture
failure in service, and KTT operations were terminated in June 1975 after six months
of operation.
A postmortem investigation of KTT...
This report includes the results of a cooperative research project between Government
and industry to explore the potential for the use of highway trailers on intermodal .
railcars (Trailer on Flatcar) or (TOFC) to transport vibration sensitive lading. The
industrial participants in the study...