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FRA FAQs
1. What does FRA do? FRA’s mission is to enable the safe, reliable, and efficient movement of people and goods for a strong America, now and in the future. Using the broad statutory authority Congress has provided, FRA accomplishes this mission by promoting and regulating railroad safety...
Restricted Speed Enforcement for Positive Train Control Systems
As defined by current regulations (Title 49 Code of Federal Regulations [CFR] 236 Subpart G), restricted speed is a speed that will permit stopping within one-half the range of vision, but does not exceed 20 mph. In the U.S., restricted speed operation is a common type of train operation on...
THE EXPERTISE MANAGEMENT FRAMEWORK FOR RAILROAD SAFETY LEADERSHIP
The Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) Office of Research, Development, and Technology’s Human Factors Division sponsored TrueSafety Evaluation and Perigean Technologies to develop an Expertise Management (EM) framework for identifying, capturing, and transferring critical areas of expertise...
SAFETY EQUIVALENCE OF APTA 8G AND GMRT 5G SEAT TESTS BASED ON HUMAN INJURY
The Federal Railroad Administration sponsored research conducted at the Volpe National Transportation Systems Center aimed to assess the safety equivalence of the passenger rail seat dynamic test requirements specified in the United States American Public Transportation Association (APTA) and...