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The U.S. Department of Transportation’s (USDOT) Federal Railroad Administration tasked the USDOT Research and Innovative Technology Administration’s John A. Volpe National Transportation Systems Center to document the success of the safety improvements at private highway-rail grade crossings...
This workshop allowed rail stakeholders to learn about and discuss advances, accomplishments, challenges and approaches for right-of-way fatality and trespass prevention.
Traffic channelization devices have found new application at highway-rail grade crossings with active warning devices. Numerous studies conducted at locations where they have been installed show positive changes in unsafe driver behavior as a result of the treatments. When meeting certain...
Overview: This program provided funding for capital projects within the United States to repair, replace, or rehabilitate qualified railroad assets to reduce the state of good repair backlog and improve intercity passenger rail performance.
Legislative Authority: This...
From August 20, 2012, to September 30, 2015, the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) sponsored this research for the optimization and testing of a non-invasive locomotive retrofit technology, Locomotive Waste Heat Recovery System (WHRS) dedicated to capturing and converting locomotive waste...
Pursuant to Title 49 of the Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) § 211.45, Federal Railroad Administration Administrator Ronald L. Batory has determined that the imminent threat of Tropical Storm Cristobal with possible hurricane force winds, flooding rains, power outages, and coastal flooding...