United States Department of Transportation
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Alternative Title:Technical Task Directive: 4 Rail Related Analysis and Techncial Support
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Edition:Final report
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Abstract:The U.S. railroad industry operates in a complex economic and regulatory environment. In addition to the national economic factors which affect business in general (e.g., money supply, inflation, recession), the railroad industry must operate within regulatory constraints imposed by the Interstate Commerce Commission and the Federal Railroad Administration. Therefore, the status of each railroad vis-a-vis its economic health and safety record is determined by the interrelationships of a variety of exogenous events as well as conscious decisions made by the management of each railroad company.
The Transportation Systems Center, under the sponsorship of the Federal Railroad Administration, is engaged in a Track Research Program to develop and evaluate track structure safety performance standards aimed at improving the operational safety of the nation's rail industry. These standards, when enacted, will impact the railroad industry in a variety of areas including safety, operations and economics. This handbook presents a set of nineteen indices which have been analytically derived to assist in the identification and measurement of change in the railroad industry as a result of introducing safety performance standards, other exogenous events, and the decisions of each railroad's management.
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