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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"Railroad safety"”.
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Application of CAST and STPA to railroad safety in China
… The STAMP analysis revealed that the existing safety culture in the whole train organization, the Ministry of Railway and all its sub organizations in both the Train Development and Train Operation channels, do not meet the safety challenges involved in a high risk system like this- running …
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Impact of automated condition monitoring technologies on railroad safety and efficiency
… of railcar inspection is critical to freight railroad operations, as it directly affects safety, reliability, mainline efficiency, and terminal performance. Current railcar inspection practices are intended to identify defects prior to failure, but they generally do not provide predictive …
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Design and testing of a railroad dispatching simulator using data-link technology
… environment than the radio environment in the railroad industry and particularly for the dispatching task. Data-link technology has been introduced successfully in the aviation world and greatly improved the communication environment. The objective of this research was to examine the primary …
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Development and application of a probabilistic risk assessment model for evaluating advanced train control technologies
… rather than statistical assessment of safety improvements achieved with advanced train control technologies. This probabilistic assessment is performed through fault-tree analysis of four accident categories: head-on and rear-end collisions, track-fault-related derailments, and …
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Quantitative analyses of freight train derailments
Railroad safety analysis encompasses several areas, one of which is freight train risk analysis. There are various types of freight train accidents including derailments, collisions, highway-rail grade crossing incidents, and others. The mainline freight train derailment rate of the major U.S. …
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Understanding government and railroad strategy for crude oil transportation in North America
… production and refining of oil sands bitumen. Railroads, with much of the required infrastructure already in place to transport crude, usually do not need to undergo the same environmental assessments as pipelines for modest capacity expansions. As a result, when pipelines are evaluated through …
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Quantitative analyses of train derailment probability at highway-rail grade crossings
… analytics and statistical modeling. The Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) and state Departments of Transportation (DOTs) have developed large databases of historical incidents that can be used to better understand the effect HRGCs have on train derailment rates. I use these databases to …
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Probabilistic risk assessment of railroad train adjacent track accidents
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'Closed Access', the embargo will last until 2021-05-01