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The Rail Transportation and Engineering Center (RailTEC) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) performed a literature review, conducted an industry-wide survey, and arranged multiple field visits to examine and quantify the challenges North American railroads are facing with...
This document contains Project-Specific Terms and Conditions, which may include special terms and conditions, and is part of the Grant Agreement between FRA and recipients of funding under FRA grant programs.
This document contains the standard terms and conditions governing the administration of a Grant Agreement and the execution of a rail project that has been selected to receive funding through an FRA grant program.
The Sensor Platform (SP) Framework was a system engineering project conducted in conjunction with the Association of American Railroads-funded development of automated train operation (ATO) system requirements. The SP is a device that monitors the external environment in front of the train for...
The Federal Railroad Administration sponsored a 2-year research effort between August 2020 and August 2022 to investigate multiple mitigation concepts for hazmat tank cars, aimed at improving their puncture resistance. The team first developed and validated a finite element (FE) model of a full-...