Urban Rail Supporting Technology Program - Fiscal Year 1973 - Year-End Summary

Details

• Creators:
  Madigan, Ronald J.
• Corporate Creators:
  John A. Volpe National Transportation Systems Center (U.S.)
• Corporate Contributors:
  United States. Urban Mass Transportation Administration
• Subject/TRT Terms:
  • Crashworthiness
  • Data collection
  • Facilities
  • High speed ground transportation
  • Management
  • Ballast (Railroads)
  • Rapid transit cars
  • Technical assistance
  • Technology
• Publication/ Report Number:
  DOT-TSC-UMTA-74-15;UMTA-MA-06-0025-74-9;PB-238 602
• DOI:
  https://doi.org/10.21949/1526909
• Resource Type:
  Tech Report
• Geographical Coverage:
  Colorado;Boston (Massachusetts)
• Corporate Publisher:
  United States. Urban Mass Transportation Administration
• Abstract:
  The Urban Rail Supporting Technology Program, being conducted for the Department of Transportation Urban Mass Transportation Administration (UMTA) is described for the 1973 Fiscal Year period. Major areas covered include program management, technical support and application engineering, facilities development, test and evaluation and technology development. Specific technical discussion covers track geometry measurement, UMTA facilities development at the High Speed Ground Test Center at Pueblo, Colorado, rail car test and evaluation, especially of the State-of-the-art-Car (SOAC) and of Boston's MBTA Green Line, instrumentation for data acquisition and processing, noise abatement methodology, and tunneling and crashworthiness studies.
• Format:
  PDF
• Download URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/10993/dot_10993_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 2.67 MB]
• Collection(s):
  Volpe Center
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:b234aba47979f4fae0779ca8375ed09f6da80b651ff1c2581c1b487c5aac6645