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Why Do Passenger Trains Run through Switches in the Rail Yard?

Document Series:
Technical Reports
Author:
  • Federal Railroad Administration
Report Number
DOT/FRA/ORD-19/37
Office
RDI-24
Subject:
Human Factors
Keywords:
Run through switch, switch points, yard crews, passenger rail, systems-theoretic process analysis, STPA, STAMP, systems-theoretic accident model and processes
Document
RTS.pdf (3.83 MB)

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Last updated: Friday, September 27, 2019