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The U.S. Department of Transportation’s (USDOT) Federal Railroad Administration tasked the USDOT Research and Innovative Technology Administration’s John A. Volpe National Transportation Systems Center to document the success of the safety improvements at private highway-rail grade crossings...
This workshop allowed rail stakeholders to learn about and discuss advances, accomplishments, challenges and approaches for right-of-way fatality and trespass prevention.
Traffic channelization devices have found new application at highway-rail grade crossings with active warning devices. Numerous studies conducted at locations where they have been installed show positive changes in unsafe driver behavior as a result of the treatments. When meeting certain...
From August 20, 2012, to September 30, 2015, the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) sponsored this research for the optimization and testing of a non-invasive locomotive retrofit technology, Locomotive Waste Heat Recovery System (WHRS) dedicated to capturing and converting locomotive waste...
Between August and October 2018, an initial series of tests with water as lading were conducted at Underwriters Laboratories (UL) in Northbrook, IL, to confirm test and instrumentation setup and baseline PRD performance. In August 2019, a subsequent series of tests using ethanol, a flammable...