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Bridge Inspection Report Public Version Request Form

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Rail Research and Development Center of Excellence Grant Program

Overview: This program makes funding available to establish a center to advance research and development efforts that seek to improve the safety, performance, and sustainability of freight, intercity passenger, and commuter rail. See the FY22-23 Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) for more...

Railroad Safety

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Note: FRA is updating the Safety section of the website to make it easier for you to find information. Throughout the next several months, you will see changes to webpages and navigation.  

Finite Element Analysis of APTA Passenger Rail 8G Structural Seat Test

The Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) sponsored researchers at the Volpe Center to perform finite element analyses (FEA) of 8g dynamic crash tests with a commuter rail 2-passenger seat design and Hybrid-III family anthropomorphic test devices (ATDs). The simulations analyzed (1) residual (i....

Finite Element Model Validation of THOR-50M ATD for APTA Table Test

The Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) sponsored Volpe Center researchers to validate a publicly available finite element (FE) model of the Test device for Human Occupant Restraint 50th Percentile Male (THOR-50M) anthropomorphic test device (ATD) in LS-DYNA. The model used selected data from...

Finite Element Analysis of APTA Passenger Rail 8G Injury Seat Test

The Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) sponsored researchers at the Volpe Center to perform finite element analyses (FEA) of 8g dynamic crash tests using a commuter rail 2-passenger seat design with different sized Hybrid-III anthropomorphic test devices (ATDs) including: (1) 50th percentile...

Short Line Safety Institute: 2022 Systematic Review

SLSI conducts an annual analysis to assess the status of safety culture in the industry. This report summarizes findings from a systematic review of the 18 SLSI Safety Culture Assessment Reports created in 2022 and discusses industry trends in the strengths and gaps related to safety culture...