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To maintain vigilance on safety, FRA taps into proactive risk management expertise at the U.S. DOT Volpe Center. The U.S. DOT Volpe Center supports two FRA demonstration programs: Clear Signal for Action (CSA) and Confidential Close Call Reporting System (C3RS).
This report presents data on comparative rail energy efficiency, emerging energy efficient technologies, and alternative fuels.
Volpe was tasked by FRA to participate in a New Jersey Transit rail safety pilot project to evaluate a prototype design of a pedestrian safety device, known as a gate skirt, installed at a highway-rail grade crossing in Matawan, NJ. The purpose of this research was to determine if the...
Yoshikata Tanabe, a visiting researcher from Yokohama, came to Volpe to tap into its expertise on railroader fatigue risk management and study research that can change the sleep culture in Japan.
This research is intended to improve railroad safety by developing means to prevent derailments due to lateral buckling of the track under a moving train.
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Please note that TR News is a copyright of the National Academy of Sciences and that the article is posted with permission of the Transportation Research Board.