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Evaluation of Modern Locomotive Crashworthiness Performance
The goal of this project is to assess crew safety of existing locomotive crashworthiness requirements using existing modern freight locomotive crash data analyses and simulation techniques. This project will evaluate the impact of the crashworthiness standards defined in Subpart D of 49 CFR Part...
Operation Lifesaver, Inc. Process Evaluation
The Federal Railroad Administration contracted Volpe National Transportation Systems Center to conduct a process evaluation of Operation Lifesaver, Inc.’s educational activities, with a focus on activities funded through an FRA grant agreement. The team conducted the evaluation from October 2022...
Expanding Summer Youth Programs in Rail through Virtual Learning and a National Campus Network – Phase I Report
FRA supported Michigan Technological University (Michigan Tech), in collaboration with Pennsylvania State University Altoona (Penn State Altoona) and the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), to establish a Tracks to the Future: Railroad Transportation and Engineering summer program...
Rail Decarbonization: A Global Collaborative Research Endeavor
This report summarizes a series of three workshops on rail decarbonization hosted by the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA). These internationally attended workshops laid the foundation for future decarbonization research topics, funded through FRA’s Research, Development, and Technology (RD...
Monitoring and Modeling of Differential Movement at Railway Transitions
The Federal Railroad Administration sponsored a research team from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign to conduct laboratory and field research of railroad bridge transitions between September 2011 and December 2015. In this report, researchers present an interpretation of Amtrak and...
An Investigation of the Effects of Positive Train Control Systems on Track Maintenance
The Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) contracted Transportation Technology Center, Inc. (TTCI) to conduct a broad analysis of the impacts of Positive Train Control (PTC) systems and technology on track maintenance. This research was conducted between September 2019 and September 2020. This...