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Despite tremendous progress in railroad safety over the last 30 years, many safety statistics have plateaued. Thus, additional insights on the complex interaction between people, trains, infrastructure, and the operating environment are needed. While the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA)...
This research documents lessons learned from the development of the Railroad Information Sharing Environment (RISE), a voluntary partnership for sharing safety sensitive information among multiple railroad industry stakeholders for the purpose of identifying, evaluating, and managing safety...
The Federal Railroad Administration, in collaboration with the Association of American Railroads and project coordinator Transportation Technology Center, Inc., has sponsored a revenue service test of an automated, machine vision inspection system for evaluating truck components on railcars. The...
On November 19, 2019, the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) contracted Transportation Technology Center, Inc. (TTCI) to conduct a side impact test of the DOT-113C120W (DOT-113) cryogenic tank car to evaluate the performance of the tank car and to provide data for the verification and...
As part of the Federal Railroad Administration’s locomotive cab occupant protection research, a Secondary Impact Protection System (SIPS) for locomotive engineers was developed. The system uses an automotive-style passenger airbag and a deformable knee bolster to provide the desired protection...
This report discusses the development of prototype Electrically Driven Hand Brakes (EDHB) that provide remote automatic set and release functions from push buttons mounted on the side of a car, or wirelessly. The EDHB improves the safety of railroad operations in several ways, including making...