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Report to Congress: Positive Train Control: Implementation Status, Issues, and Impacts

The Rail Safety Improvement Act of 2008 (RSIA) established a completion date for the installation of interoperable Positive Train Control (PTC) systems by December 31, 2015. The RSIA also required the Secretary of Transportation to transmit a report to specified congressional committees no later...

U.S. Transportation Secretary LaHood, Local Officials Celebrate Completion of Vermonter Rail Project

BRATTLEBORO, Vt. – U.S. Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood today announced the on-time and on-budget completion of a two-year project making upgrades and repairs along 190 miles of track between St. Albans and Vernon on Amtrak’s Vermonter line. Secretary LaHood was joined...

Passenger Rail Train to Train Impact Test Volume I: Overview and Selected Results US Department of Transportation

This report describes the results of the train-to-train impact test conducted at the Federal Railroad Administration’s Transportation Technology Center in Pueblo, Colorado on January 31, 2002. In this test, a cab car-led train, initially moving at 30 mph and consisting of a cab car, three coach...

Passenger Rail Train to Train Impact Test Volume II: Summary of Occupant Protection Program

On January 31, 2002, a train-to-train collision test was conducted involving a cab-car-led consist with three coach cars, all of conventional design, and a trailing locomotive traveling at 30 mph into a stationary locomotive coupled with two ballasted freight cars. The objective of this test was...

Single Passenger Rail Car Impact Test Volume I: Overview and Selected Results

On November 16, 1999, at the Transportation Technology Center in Pueblo, Colorado, a test was conducted of a single rail passenger car colliding with a fixed wall at 35 mph. The car was instrumented to measure (1) the deformations of critical structural elements, (2) the vertical, lateral, and...

Passenger Rail Two-Car Impact Test Volume II: Summary of Occupant Protection Program

Two full-scale impact tests of rail cars fitted with seat/occupant experiments were conducted at the Federal Railroad Administration’s Transportation Technology Center located in Pueblo, Colorado. The first test was conducted on November 16, 1999, with a single rail car that was impacted against a...

Single Passenger Rail Car Impact Test Volume II: Summary of Occupant Protection Program

A test in which a single rail passenger car was crashed into a fixed wall at 35 mph was conducted at the Transportation Technology Center on November 16, 1999. The car was instrumented to measure (1) the deformations of critical structural elements, (2) the vertical, lateral, and longitudinal...

Crashworthiness of Passenger Trains Safety of High-Speed Ground Transportation Systems

The results of analyses conducted to determine the effectiveness of structural and interior train design strategies in protecting occupants during collisions are presented. Structural design approaches considered include the conventional design approach of requiring a uniform minimum...

Crashworthiness Testing of Amtrak’s traditional Coach Set Safety of High-Speed Ground Transportation Systems

Tests have been conducted on Amtrak’s traditional passenger seat to evaluate its performance under static and dynamic loading conditions. Quasi-static tests have been conducted to establish the load-deflection characteristics of the seat. Dynamic tests of selected collision conditions have been...

Passenger Rail Equipment Collision Safety: Occupant Protection

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