This document reviews three phases of a study conducted to evaluate and improve the crashworthiness of passenger carrying vehicles in intercity service. Phase I surveyed the accident data over a period 1966 to 1973 and identified those areas responsible for the mS3jority of accidents involving human injury (both operating personnel and fare-paying passengers). An analysis was also conducted on the structural integrity of a commuter car -identified as the single largest source of injuries in the subject time frame. Phase II extended the structural survey to the caboose and the locomotive cab. Phase III developed a potential design for crash survivable locomotive cab and included both static and dynamic analyses of the crash scenarios. The design is predicated about the provision of a "Survivable Volume".
Three recent accidents involving the release of hazardousmaterial have focused attention on the structural integrity ofrailroad tank cars: (1) Minot, ...
United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Railroad Administration. Office of Railroad Policy and Development
2011-11-01
Abstract:
The Federal Railroad Administration’s (FRA) Office of Railroad Policy and Development is exploring how to enhance regulations that address the safe,...
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