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As part of a series of impact tests, the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) sponsored a research team from Transportation Technology Center, working with Volpe National Transportation Systems Center (Volpe), to analyze the side impact puncture performance of a surrogate DOT-113 tank car...
FRA sponsored a study by Southwest Research Institute to conduct research and testing of a cryogenic storage tank in Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) service and evaluate its thermal safety performance under fire conditions using analytical methods and fire testing. This report documents the second...
FRA takes care to ensure the accuracy and completeness of all data in each annual enforcement report. Information in each of FRA’s annual enforcement reports is based on information that FRA had at the time that the agency issued the report. If FRA receives more...
The Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) sponsored a research team from Rutgers University to develop a proof-of-concept Trespassing Database using Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology to automatically process large volumes of live or recorded video data. The team used the Rutgers AI...
The Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) sponsored Transportation Technology Center, Inc. (TTCI) to define the requirements for Interoperable Employee-In-Charge (EIC) Portable Remote Terminal (PRT) functionality for use with Positive Train Control (PTC) systems. The Interoperable EIC-PRT is a...