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Mixed Freight and Higher-Speed Passenger Trains: Framework for Superelevation Design
As the demand for higher-speed passenger trains increases, the disparity between freight and passenger operations also increases. On mixed-use rail corridors, the result is a bi-modal distribution of train speeds that complicates design of curve superelevation. To aid in making informed curve...49 CFR Part 240 Safety Guidance: Motor Vehicle recordkeeping requirements; National Driver Register Data with States
The Bulletin recognizes changes the National Highway Traffic Administration (NHTSA) has made to streamline the process for obtaining information from the National Driver Register (NDR)Final Report - Guidelines for Testing of FRA Rear End Marking Devices
The implementation of Title 49, Code of Federal Regulations, Part 221 - Rear End Marking Device - Passenger, Commuter, and Freight Trains, requires the installation of certain highly visible marking devices for the trailing end of the rear car of all passenger, commuter. and freight train. It is...Glacier Rail Park/Kalispell Core Area Development and Trail Project Supplemental Environmental Assessment (SEA)
This document is a supplement to the Environmental Assessment (EA) for the Glacier Rail Park/Kalispell Core Area Development and Trail Project (Project), prepared by the City of Kalispell (City) and approved by the US Department of Transportation’s (USDOT) Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) in...Improving Collision Post Crashworthiness of Legacy Locomotives
Modern locomotives are built to crashworthiness standards defined in Subpart D of Title 49 Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) Part 229 as well as the Association of American Railroads’(AAR) S-580 standards. Older locomotives, specifically the narrow-nose locomotives, were not designed to these...System-Wide Implementation of Rail Right-of-Way Incursion Treatments
From 2016 through 2018, the Volpe Center partnered with SunRail to develop, install, and evaluate promising vehicle ROW incursion prevention engineering treatments. Following this demonstration project, in early 2018 the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) Long Island Rail Road (LIRR)...