FRA supported Michigan Technological University (Michigan Tech), in collaboration with Pennsylvania State University Altoona (Penn State Altoona) and the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), to establish a Tracks to the Future: Railroad...

The Federal Railroad Administration contracted Volpe National Transportation Systems Center to conduct a process evaluation of Operation Lifesaver, Inc.’s educational activities, with a focus on activities funded through an FRA grant agreement. The...

The goal of this project is to assess crew safety of existing locomotive crashworthiness requirements using existing modern freight locomotive crash data analyses and simulation techniques. This project will evaluate the impact of the crashworthiness...

FRA sponsored Transportation Technology Center, Inc. (TTCI) to perform evaluation tests on tri-couplers designed and produced by Sharma Associates, Inc. (SA). SA designed and produced the freight car Electrical Power Supply System (EPSS), while TTCI...