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Multimodal-Funded Projects

Multimodal-funded projects are those projects funded by more than one United States Department of Transportation (USDOT) mode. Multimodal-funded projects include joint rail and transit projects funded in part by both the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) and the Federal Transit Administration (FTA) federal assistance programs. This page provides operating procedures applicable to multimodal-funded projects that were jointly developed by FRA and FTA.

Improving Tank Car Crash Energy Management (CEM)

The Federal Railroad Administration sponsored a 2-year research effort between August 2020 and August 2022 to investigate multiple mitigation concepts for hazmat tank cars, aimed at improving their puncture resistance. The team first developed and validated a finite element (FE) model of a full-...