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FY22-23 STC Grant Program Award Selections
Biden-Harris Administration Awards Over $108 Million For Projects in Rural Communities to Improve Rail Safety and Strengthen Local Supply Chains
Nine new projects funded by the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law will make...
A Systems-Theoretic Computational Model of Human Performance in an Advanced Railroad Dispatch Operation
The Federal Railroad Administration sponsored a research team from Duke University to study railroad dispatcher workload in association with automation under various scenarios and task demands. The team developed a computational model to help examine, understand, and predict the effects of the...
Railroad Artificial Intelligence Intruder Learning System (RAIILS)
This report summarizes the research conducted as part of Phase 2 of the Railroad Artificial Intelligence Intruder Learning System (RAIILS), led by a team of researchers at Michigan Technological University (Michigan Tech) and sponsored by the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) from March 2019...
Efficacy of Increased Flash Rate of Railroad Gate Flashers
FRA sponsored the Volpe National Transportation Systems Center to evaluate the efficacy of increasing the flash rate of gate-mounted flashers on driver compliance with grade crossing warning devices. This work aimed to increase safety by reducing the violation rate and the average time of...
Accident Investigation Summary Report FE-2023-04
On March 7, 2023, at approximately 1:08 a.m. EST, a Norfolk Southern Railway Company (NS) conductor was fatally injured when Train C75B106 collided with a dump truck at a private road crossing in Cleveland, Ohio. The accident occurred on NS’s Cleveland Branch Line near a steel mill owned by...