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Reference-Free Estimates of Railroad Bridge Displacement under Revenue Service Traffic
A top bridge research priority for railroad owners is to determine bridge displacements under in-service train loadings. Recent studies have demonstrated that displacement data assists railroad owners in prioritizing maintenance, repair, and replacement policies. However, displacement...
Preventing Stop Signal Overruns: Good Practices for Passenger Railroads
See Also: Stop Signal Overruns (SSO) & Near Miss: An Investigation Template for Passenger Railroads
Stop Signal Overruns (SSO) & Near Miss: An Investigation Template for Passenger Railroads
See Also: Preventing Stop Signal Overruns: Good Practices for Passenger Railroads
Measuring the Displacement Environment Between a Locomotive and Trailing Car
The Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) funded a project conducted by Transportation Technology Center, Inc.’s (TTCI) Association of American Railroads’ (AAR) Natural Gas Fuel Tender (NGFT) Technical Advisory Group (TAG) in developing industry standards for NGFT tenders. The objective was to...
Experimental Results of RAWCAD Static Test
The Federal Railroad Administration supported the performance of semi static tests on two cracked axles as part of the Resonant Acoustic Wayside Automated Cracked Axle Detection (RAWCAD) project. The performance of detection algorithms for distinguishing frequency shift in cracked axles was...