Preventing Stop Signal Overruns: Good Practices for Passenger Railroads
See Also: Stop Signal Overruns (SSO) & Near Miss: An Investigation Template for Passenger Railroads
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Stop Signal Overruns (SSO) & Near Miss: An Investigation Template for Passenger Railroads
See Also: Preventing Stop Signal Overruns: Good Practices for Passenger Railroads
Measuring the Displacement Environment Between a Locomotive and Trailing Car
The Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) funded a project conducted by Transportation Technology Center, Inc.’s (TTCI) Association of American Railroads’ (AAR) Natural Gas Fuel Tender (NGFT) Technical Advisory Group (TAG) in developing industry standards for NGFT tenders. The objective was to...
Dallas to Houston High-Speed Rail – Final Environmental Impact Statement and Section 106 Programmatic Agreement
Final Environmental Impact StatementFRA released the Final EIS on May 29, 2020. The Final EIS evaluates and documents the reasonably foreseeable potential beneficial and adverse environmental impacts of implementing TCRR’s HSR system, including a No Build Alternative and six Build...
Experimental Results of RAWCAD Static Test
The Federal Railroad Administration supported the performance of semi static tests on two cracked axles as part of the Resonant Acoustic Wayside Automated Cracked Axle Detection (RAWCAD) project. The performance of detection algorithms for distinguishing frequency shift in cracked axles was...
Developing Low Service Temperature Steels for Railroads Truck Castings
The research performed for the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) previously identified six grades of steel currently used in low temperature applications that could potentially be used as truck castings. These materials are specified under the American Society of Testing Materials (ASTM)...