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FY2010 Rail Line Relocation Non-Competitive Projects

 

FY2010 Rail Line Relocation Non-Competitive Projects ProjectAmount Blue Ridge and KC Southern Railroad Rail Line Rehabilitation and Improvement, MO  $800,000 Coos County Rail Safety Upgrades, Coos County, NH  $800,000 Detroit/Wayne County Port Authority...

Optimizing Staffing Levels and Schedules for Railroad Dispatching Centers

This report presents the results of a study to explore approaches to establishing staffing levels and schedules for railroad dispatchers. The work was conducted as follow-up to a prior study that found fatigue among dispatchers, particularly those who worked permanent night shifts. The present...

Effects of Supervisory Train Control Technology on Operator Attention

This report describes an experiment evaluating the effects of supervisory control automation on attention allocation while operating a train. The study compared two levels of supervisory control (partial and full) to manual control, in terms of how it affects vigilance detection and situation...