Office of Facilities and Asset Management

The Office of Facilities and Asset Management plans, develops, and administers a program of management and administrative services and activities to ensure operational effectiveness, efficiency, and compliance with public laws and Federal regulations. For each of these services, develops and administers Agency-wide policies and provides support, assistance, and technical expertise to FRA headquarters and field organizations.

Specific responsibilities include:

Buckingham Branch Railroad Engineer Cert Program Approval letter

Aberdeen Carolina & Western Railway Congestion Mitigation Project: Finding of No Significant Impact

Grade Crossing Safety and Railroad Trespass Prevention Workshop Agenda

Corridor Identification and Development Program—Solicitation Preview

Sled Tests Using the THOR-50M ATD and Quasi-Static Tests of Workstation Tables for Passenger Trains

The industry safety standard for fixed workstation tables on passenger railcars, APTA PR-CS-S-018-13, draft Rev. 2, provides two options for test procedures and requirements when evaluating crashworthy tables for protecting passengers during a collision. MGA Research Corporation performed six...

Fully Scalable Train Braking Simulation Environment

Transportation Technology Center, Inc. (MxV Rail), through a research project funded by the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA),  developed a Concept of Operations (ConOps), documented the infrastructure design, and developed software to support a virtualized fully scalable train braking...

Large-Scale Testing and Numerical Modeling of Full- and Reduced-Scale Rail Car Floor Assemblies

A previously developed methodology for reducing the physical scale of test articles for fire performance testing of rail car floors was benchmarked using a series of large-scale tests and validated finite element simulations. The simulations showed that the experimental differences between the...

Train-to-Train Impact Test: Wheelchair Securement Experiments

Researchers crash-tested off-the-shelf wheelchair securement devices in a train-to-train impact test at the Transportation Technology Center in Pueblo, Colorado, on August 11, 2022. Two wheelchair securement devices and one backboard (baseline experiment) were each tested with a Hybrid III 50th...

Feasibility of Special Trackwork Inspection Using Ultrasonics

The Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) co-sponsored Transportation Technology Center, Inc. (TTCI) on a trackwork inspection effort scheduled for completion in September 2022. This research demonstrated the potential for the low-frequency ultrasonic testing (UT) nondestructive evaluation (NDE...