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Oct
2003
Technical Reports
Passenger Train Grade Crossing Impact Tests: Test Procedures, Instrumentation, and Data
Keywords: Impact test; passenger rail car; grade crossing impact
Abstract: Two full-scale impact tests performed June 4 and June 7, 2002, involved single Budd Company Pioneer-type cab car impacts into a heavy steel coil on a frangible support. For the...
Report Number
DOT/FRA/ORD-03/18.II
Office
RDI-20
1
Oct
2003
Technical Reports
Study of Bridge Approach and Track Transition Degradation: Factors and Mitigation
Subject
Bridge and Structures Safety
Keywords: Track Transition, Geometry Degradation, Factors and Causes
Abstract: Efforts have been made to reduce or eliminate track geometry degradation at bridge approaches and special trackwork zones for more than a century. This is a common problem that...
Report Number
DTFR53-01-H-00305
Office
RRD
1
Sep
2003
Technical Reports
Tank Car Relief Valve Requirement for Liquid Posison Inhalation Hazard (PIH) Lading
Subject
Hazardous Materials
Keywords: Tank Car, Hazardous Materials, Pressure Relief Valves, Poison Inhalation Hazard, PIH, Thermally Reactive Materials, Polymerizable Materials, Dangerous When Wet Materials
Abstract: Analyses were performed for the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) by Transportation Technology Center, Inc., a subsidiary of the Association of American Railroads, to...
Report Number
DOT/FRA/ORD-03/21
Office
RRD
1
Sep
2003
Technical Reports
Railroad Tank Car Relief Valve Requirements for Liquid PIH Lading
Subject
Hazardous Materials
Keywords: Poison Inhalation Hazard, Thermally Reactive Materials, Polymerizable Materials, Dangerous When Wet Materials
Abstract: Analyses were performed for the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) by Transportation Technology Center, Inc., a subsidiary of the Association of American Railroads, to...
Report Number
DOT/FRA/ORD-03/21
Office
RRD
13
Aug
2003
Technical Reports
Analysis of the Safety Impact of Train Horn Bans at Rail-Highway Grade Crossings: An Update Using 1997-2001 Data
Subject
Highway-Rail Grade Crossings,
USDOT National Highway-Rail Crossing Inventory
Keywords: Train Horn Rule and Quiet Zones
Abstract: This report updates Westat's prior report to FRA (Zador, 2002) in terms of both data and statistical methods. Safety impact estimates in the prior report were based on 5-year...
Report Number
Contract No. DTFR53-03-P-00005
Office
RRS