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Other Reports
Test Plan for X2000 Evaluation
Keywords: High Speed Stability Tests, Cant Deficiency, Simulations
Abstract: [From the Overview] The evaluation program for the X2000 trainset, as currently planned, involves a series of different technical tests to be followed by one or more simulated or...
Technical Reports
Safety of High-Speed Guided Ground Transportation Systems: Shared Right-of-Way Safety Issues
Keywords: High speed rail, Magnetic levitation, Maglev, Shared right of way, Risk assessment
Abstract: One of the most important issues in the debate over the viability in the United States of high-speed guided ground transportation (HSGGT) systems, which include magnetic...
Technical Reports
Power Transfer to High Speed Vehicles
Keywords: Hotel Power, Drive Power, Contact and Non-Contact Means, Inductive Coils
Abstract: This final report summarizes work performed in the assessment and analysis of power transfer techniques to high speed vehicles. The objectives of this research were to determine...
Other Reports
Transportation of U.S. Grains: A Modal Share Analysis
Keywords: Grain Transportation, Grain Movements, Rail Transport
Abstract: The analysis of movements of grain by mode of transport provides important information about changes in the competitiveness and relative efficiencies between the modes. The goal...
Technical Reports
FAST/HAL Rail Performance Experiment and Overview
Keywords: Rail Fatigue, Rail Wear, Rail Grinding, Rail Welding, MGT, Heavy Axle Load, High Tonnage Loop
Abstract: The Rail Performance Experiment, conducted at the Facility for Accelerated Service Testing, Transportation Test Center, Pueblo, Colorado, was performed to evaluate the effect of...