Criteria and procedures for validating biomathematical models of human performance and fatigue: Procedures for analysis of work schedules

Each railroad covered by 49 CFR 228.407 must perform an analysis of the work schedules of its train employees who are engaged in commuter or intercity rail passenger transportation and identify those schedules that, if worked by such a train employee, may be at risk for a level of fatigue at...

Rail Trespasser Fatalities Demographic and Behavioral Profiles, June 2013

Design Improvements to General Service Tank Cars

Tank Car Filling Limit & Filling Density Standards

Incident Investigation & Root Cause Analysis

Human Factors Guidelines for Locomotive Cabs

Reliance and Distraction Effects in PTC Automation

This document was requested by T. Raslear of the Federal Rail Administration (FRA) on 3/3/99 of the PTC Human Factors Team in conjunction with ongoing discussions of PTC standards. The charge was to investigate the "reliance effect" and the "distraction effect," where definition and focus were...

Higher Speed Freight Truck Market Analysis

U.S. Transportation Secretary Foxx Awards $10 Million for the Port of Northern Montana Multimodal Hub

WASHINGTON – U.S. Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx today finalized a $10 million TIGER (Transportation Investment Generating Economic Recovery) 2011 grant for the Port of Northern Montana Multimodal Hub Center in Shelby, Mont.  The inland port will expand the export capacity of...

Gulf, Colorado & San Saba Railway; Emergency Order to Prevent Operation of Trains Over the Highway-Rail Grade Crossing at U.S. Highway 87 (DOT Crossing No. 024816B, Milepost 66.65) in Brady, TX

Grade Crossing Safety