Railroads
HQ-2018-1288 (Finalized)
At 4:10 p.m., EDT, on Monday, July 30, 2018, a southbound CSX Transportation freight train Q19729 with two locomotives and 10 loaded intermodal cars, struck a private motor vehicle with four occupants at the highway-rail grade crossing at Buffington Road in College Park, Georgia. Three...HQ-2019-1329 (Finalized)
On Saturday, March 30, 2019, at approximately 9:06 a.m., MDT, a westbound Union Pacific Railroad (UP) manifest train derailed 24 cars on UP’s Lynndyl Subdivision, Rocky Mountain Service Unit. This derailment occurred in a remote area of Juab County, Utah, approximately 20 miles east of Lynndyl,...FRA Office of Research, Development and Technology - Current Projects
This is a resource updated annually for the Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting held each January in Washington, D.C. The catalog provides details on current research efforts—project descriptions, academic and industry partnerships, costs and schedules, and FRA project manager...Monitoring Engineer Fatigue (MEFA)
Aurora Flight Sciences, under contract to the Federal Railroad Administration, studied the feasibility of autonomously monitoring and combating train engineer fatigue. This program is called Monitoring Engineer Fatigue (MEFA). Research and testing at the FRA’s Cab Technology Integration...Using an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle to Produce Accurate Grade Crossing Profile Data
The U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) John A. Volpe National Transportation Systems Center (Volpe), under the direction of DOT’s Federal Railroad Administration (FRA), Office of Research, Development and Technology, studied the use of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to produce accurate 3-...