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The Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) tasked the John A. Volpe National Transportation Systems Center to document the further success of the North Carolina DOT “Sealed Corridor” project through Phases I, II, and III. The Sealed Corridor is the section of the designated Southeast High Speed Rail...
This report describes research conducted to support the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) in addressing safety recommendations made by the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) regarding a train derailment that occurred near Minot, North Dakota on January 18, 2002. Engineering studies...
Phase 2 of this project is a continuation from Phase 1 and investigates the survivability of railroad tank car top fittings in rollover scenarios using Failure Element Analysis techniques. It also explores additional protective concepts intended to survive more severe impacts than those of the...
This project examines the influence of the communication timeout threshold and latency of a positive train control (PTC) system
on its overall safety performance as compared with a cab signal system with continuous Automatic Train Stop and a fouraspect
cab signal system with speed control, or an...
This report presents the results of a study designed to characterize the work/rest schedules and sleep patterns of U.S. railroad train
and engine service (T&E) personnel and to examine the relationship between these schedules and alertness. The methodology
was a survey of a random sample of U...