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1
Sep
1981
Technical Reports
Railroad Classification Yard Technology-Computer System Methodology: Case Study… Potomac Yard
Subject
Freight Operations
Keywords: Classifiaction yard, Computers, Design, Operations, Performance, Evaluation, Hardware, Cost
Abstract: This report documents the application of the railroad classification yard computer system methodology to Potomac Yard of the Richmond, Fredericksburg, and Potomac Railroad Company...
Report Number
FRA/ORD-81/61
1
Sep
1981
Technical Reports
Truck Design Optimization Project (TDOP) Phase II: Guideline Test Specifications for Freight Car Trucks
Subject
Freight Operations
Keywords: Field Tests, Laboratory Tests, Performance Regimes, Lateral Stability, Trackability, Ride Quality, Steady State Curve Negotiation
Abstract: Under the Federal Railroad Administration-sponsored Truck Design Optimization Project Phase II, a set of standard test specifications were developed to evaluate and characterize...
Report Number
FRA/ORD-81/36-II
Office
RRD
1
Aug
1981
Technical Reports
Truck Design Optimization Project (TDOP) Phase II: Performance Specification for Type II Freight Car Trucks
Subject
Freight Operations
Keywords: Performance Regimes, Performance Characteristics, Lateral Stability, Trackability, Ride Quality, Steady State Curve Negotiation
Abstract: One of the important goals of the Truck Design Optimization Project (TDOP) Phase II is to provide the railroad industry with a basis for performance specifications for the new...
Report Number
FRA/ORD-81/36-I
Office
RRD
1
Jul
1981
Technical Reports
Eastern European Track Structure Technology and Research
Subject
Tracks & Structures
Keywords: Ballast, Lateral Resistance, Ties, Rail Fasteners, Track Buckling, Poland, Hungary, Romania
Abstract: Cooperative agreements between the United States and the Eastern European countries of Poland, Hungary and Romania provide for the exchange of technical research and...
Report Number
FRA/ORD-81-58
Office
RRD
1
Jun
1981
Technical Reports
Investigation of Design Standards for Urban Rail Transit Elevated Structures
Subject
Tracks & Structures,
Evaluation
Keywords: Design Criteria, Literature Review, Comparison
Abstract: The purpose of this report was to review the various criteria for design of elevated rail transit structures currently in use by selected transit properties and to compile them in...
Report Number
UMTA-GA-06-0010-81-1
Office
RRD