Safety of railroad passenger vehicle dynamics : final summary report

Details

• Creators:
  Samavedam, Gopal ; Gomes, John
• Subject/TRT Terms:
  • Railroad safety
  • Vehicle safety
  • Passenger trains
  • Railroad tracks
  • Derailments
  • Simulation
  • Passenger cars
  • Field tests
  • Test vehicles
  • Evaluation
  More +
• Publication/ Report Number:
  DOT/FRA/ORD-01/05
• Resource Type:
  Research Paper
• Geographical Coverage:
  United States
• Corporate Publisher:
  United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Railroad Administration
• Abstract:
  This report is a summary of all the work done by Foster-Miller on the passenger rail vehicle dynamic safety under the contract awarded by the FRA. The report presents key issues and findings in the safety assessments and a safety assessment methodology for rail vehicles negotiating tracks with geometry perturbations. Key issues include definition of appropriate derailment criteria, track perturbations to cover a variety of scenarios, development of a simulation tool and a ; framework for safety assessment. The simulation tool OMNISIM and its test validations have been presented. The required parameters in the simulation tool and the measurement techniques for their quantification are presented. A safety assessment methodology is formalized, which has been validated through full-scale field testing. (53 p.)
• Format:
  PDF
• Download URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/15118/dot_15118_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 363.94 KB]
• Collection(s):
  US Transportation Collection
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:76ca32d19041428b8013722e8b1e8d75cf92e1fc4fec738712cb757aa7c28d07