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May
1998
Technical Reports
Interim Report: Screening Tests of Alternative Grade Crossing Detection Technologies
Subject
Grade Crossing Modeling and Simulation,
Highway-Rail Grade Crossings
Keywords: TTC, Transportation Test Center, Enhanced Track Circuits, Non-Contact Sensors
Abstract: This report assesses grade crossing warning alternatives, such as enhanced circuits and non-contact sensors, that did not rely on track circuits to detect trains.
Office
RRD
1
May
1998
Other Reports
Railroad Train Dispatcher Workload, Stress, and Fatigue - Phase II Report: Pilot Field Test
Subject
Railroad Employees
Keywords: Human Factors, Rail Safety, Performance Analysis
Abstract: [From the Introduction] The purpose of this project is to identify the sources of workload, stress, and fatigue associated with the train dispatcher’s job and working life. In...
Office
RRD
1
Apr
1998
Other Reports
Model Legislation for Railroad Trespass and Railroad Vandalism
Subject
Highway-Rail Grade Crossings,
Trespasser Programs
Abstract: By 1994, the Nation had experienced four consecutive years in which more than 1,000 people were either killed or seriously injured while trespassing on railroad property other th....
Office
RRS
1
Mar
1998
Historical Documents
Privatization of Rail Passenger Service in the United States
1
Mar
1998
Technical Reports
Intelligent Transportation Systems and their Implications for Railroads-Proceedings of A Joint FRA-ITS America Technical Symposium- Washington, DC- June 4 and 5, 1997
Subject
Intelligent Railroad Systems
Keywords: Highway- rail grade corssing, Intelligent Transportation systems, ITS technology, ITS Architecture, Highway-rail Intersection, Positive Train control, Differential global positioning system
Abstract: The Federal Railroad Administration and the Intelligent Transportation Society of America (ITS America) convened a joint Technical Symposium on June 4 and 5, 1997 on the subject "...
Report Number
DOT/FRA/ORD-97/11
Office
RRD