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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"Train Accident"”.
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Application of CAST and STPA to railroad safety in China
The accident analysis method called STAMP (System-Theoretic Accident Model), developed by Prof. Nancy Leveson from MIT, was used here to re-analyze a High Speed Train accident in China. On July 23rd, 2011, 40 people were killed and 120 injured on the Yong-Wen High Speed Line. The purpose of this …
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Quantitative analyses of freight train derailments
… 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. Railroads (Class I) declined …
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Optimal strategies to improve railroad train safety and reduce hazardous materials transportation risk
… and minimized to the extent feasible. Railroad train safety is affected by a variety of infrastructure, rolling stock and operational factors. These factors, individually and in combination, should be properly accounted for in hazardous materials transportation risk management. This dissertation …
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Traumatic Formations and Psychiatric Codifications: A Rhetorical History of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
… the diagnoses themselves must conform to the constraints of their day as determined by the institutions (government, military, or disciplinary) that call upon psychiatric medicine to intervene in social problems. Traumatic Formations presents four historical case studies: railway spine in …
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Scheduling of track inspection and maintenance activities in railroad networks
… Besides maintenance costs, other costs such as train accident costs, train and shipment delay costs and rolling stock maintenance costs are also closely related to track maintenance activities. Optimizing the track maintenance process on the extensive railroad networks is a very complex problem …
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Train accidents: orthopaedic injury and management at Groote Schuur Hospital, Cape Town, South Africa
… patient presentation at our hospital following train accidents. The literature describing the pattern of injuries and management following these accidents is sparse. In addition, the literature looking specifically at orthopaedic injuries and their management is lacking. The aim of this study …
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Quantitative analyses of unit train safety and railroad tank car implementation policy
… and economic prosperity of North America. Train safety has improved considerably over the past decade. However, with the large volume of traffic, accidents still occur. Derailments are the most common type of train accident recorded in the Federal Railroad Administration’s Rail Equipment …
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Narrative at Risk: Accident and Teleology in American Culture, 1963-2013
<p>Accident in fiction is always inevitable. When a character in a novel suffers a car accident, for example, the accident is the effect of the author's intentions, and therefore it is not accidental. The words and images that constitute the meanings and events of the text do not change. The …