Stop Signal Overruns (SSO) & Near Miss: An Investigation Template for Passenger Railroads
See Also: Preventing Stop Signal Overruns: Good Practices for Passenger Railroads
Railroads
Measuring the Displacement Environment Between a Locomotive and Trailing Car
The Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) funded a project conducted by Transportation Technology Center, Inc.’s (TTCI) Association of American Railroads’ (AAR) Natural Gas Fuel Tender (NGFT) Technical Advisory Group (TAG) in developing industry standards for NGFT tenders. The objective was to...
Dallas to Houston High-Speed Rail – Final Environmental Impact Statement and Section 106 Programmatic Agreement
Final Environmental Impact StatementFRA released the Final EIS on May 29, 2020. The Final EIS evaluates and documents the reasonably foreseeable potential beneficial and adverse environmental impacts of implementing TCRR’s HSR system, including a No Build Alternative and six Build...
Experimental Results of RAWCAD Static Test
The Federal Railroad Administration supported the performance of semi static tests on two cracked axles as part of the Resonant Acoustic Wayside Automated Cracked Axle Detection (RAWCAD) project. The performance of detection algorithms for distinguishing frequency shift in cracked axles was...
Developing Low Service Temperature Steels for Railroads Truck Castings
The research performed for the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) previously identified six grades of steel currently used in low temperature applications that could potentially be used as truck castings. These materials are specified under the American Society of Testing Materials (ASTM)...
Concepts for Interoperable Lifecycle Management of Positive Train Control (PTC)
Transportation Technology Center, Inc. (TTCI) developed initial concepts for a Positive Train Control (PTC) Interoperable Lifecycle Management (ILM) system to support established and evolving industry processes to manage, coordinate, and document changes to PTC throughout its lifecycle. As part...
Focused Public and Stakeholder Engagement: Fall 2018 – Winter 2019
In Fall 2018, FRA and the Project Proponents initiated a public and stakeholder engagement action plan to help ensure that stakeholders remained well-informed and engaged from Public Meeting #4 to the DEIS public hearing. The public and stakeholders were engaged through briefings or having a presence at various events listed in the table below. Depending on the event, representatives of FRA or the Project Proponents were available to talk about the Project or answer questions.
Reduced-Scale Rail Car Floor Fire Test Specimen Feasibility Study
The Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) contracted with Jensen Hughes (JH) to conduct ongoing research on the feasibility of reducing the size of the test article for floor fire resistance testing. This computational study was conducted to determine the conditions necessary to demonstrate that...