Comparison of Noise for Train Standards
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High Speed Rail: Cost of Compliance for Noise Mitigation ProceduresTechnical Reports
Fouled Ballast Waiver Operations and Results
Current regulations require locations of noncompliant ballast to be remediated within 30 days or to be taken out of service, regardless of track class. In 2013, the Association of American Railroads (AAR) applied for a waiver to the current regulations that proposed a track class specific...
Rail Safety Training Course for Law Enforcement
Proper law enforcement can deter risky behavior and it is vital that law enforcement officers receive proper training pertaining to the importance of enforcing trespassing and grade crossing laws. Law enforcement officers are typically the first emergency responders to reach the scene of an...
Wheel Failure Investigation Program: Phase 2
Although rare, broken wheel derailments tend to be more catastrophic than other derailment types as a sudden fracture can occur in service at revenue train speeds. It is very difficult to detect the hidden defects which cause such events, prior to failure. In February 2016, the Federal Railroad...
Side Impact Test of a DOT-113 Surrogate Tank Car with Water
The Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) conducted a side impact test of a surrogate DOT-113 tank car at Transportation Technology Center, Inc. (TTCI) to evaluate its performance under dynamic impact conditions and to provide data for the verification and refinement of a computational model....
Test Evaluation of Retrofit Collison Post Design for Legacy Locomotives
Legacy locomotives, such as narrow-nose designs manufactured before 1990, were not required to comply with crashworthiness requirements. Therefore, these locomotives afford less crew protection in case of train collisions. In this project, collision posts that offer additional crash...
Raking Impact Testing of Diesel Multiple Unit (DMU) Fuel Tanks
On December 18, 2018, a quasi-static raking test of a diesel multiple unit (DMU) fuel tank was conducted at the Transportation Technology Center (TTC) in Pueblo, CO. This test resulted in puncture of the tank's end sheet and a 22.6-inch tear in its bottom sheet. On November 13, 2019, a second...
Enhanced Automatic Train Control Braking Algorithm Research and Development
The primary objective of the project was the evaluation of the braking enforcement methodology used by the railroads that have implemented an E-ATC PTC system. The methodology developed under this project can be used by the industry to verify that the braking enforcement algorithms meet...
Railroad Information Sharing Environment (RISE)
Despite tremendous progress in railroad safety over the last 30 years, many safety statistics have plateaued. Thus, additional insights on the complex interaction between people, trains, infrastructure, and the operating environment are needed. While the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA)...
Lessons from the Railroad Information Sharing Environment (RISE) Pilot Project
This research documents lessons learned from the development of the Railroad Information Sharing Environment (RISE), a voluntary partnership for sharing safety sensitive information among multiple railroad industry stakeholders for the purpose of identifying, evaluating, and managing safety...