Commuter Rail Seat Tests in Open-Bay Configuration

Details

• Creators:
  Zika, Ryan ; Shively, Greg ; Wood, Jeremy ; Young, Jennifer
• Corporate Creators:
  MGA Research Corporation
• Corporate Contributors:
  United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Railroad Administration
• Subject/TRT Terms:
  • Passenger cars
  • Dynamic tests
  • Structural analysis
  • Crashworthiness
  • Sled tests
  • Rail (Railroads)
  • Passengers Passenger seats
  • open-bay
  • facing seats
  • structural integrity
  More +
• Publication/ Report Number:
  DOT/FRA/ORD-22/16
• Resource Type:
  Tech Report
• Geographical Coverage:
  United States
• Edition:
  October 2020-July 2021
• Contracting Officer:
  Gordon, Jeffrey
• Corporate Publisher:
  United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Railroad Administration
• Abstract:
  Open-bay seating is a common configuration in U.S. passenger railcars. The current version of the American Public Transportation Association’s safety standard on passenger seating (APTA PR-CS-S-016-99, Rev. 3) requires open-bay seats to be tested if more than 50 percent of a car’s seating is configured as open-bay. The objective of this research study was to determine if existing seats developed for use in a row-to-row configuration would comply with the seat safety standard requirements in the open-bay configuration without any design modifications. Of the four seat types tested, only one satisfied all of the human injury criteria.
• Format:
  PDF
• Funding:
  693JJ620C000019
• Download URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/61614/dot_61614_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 7.97 MB]
• Collection(s):
  Federal Railroad Administration
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:6cad4cc1095178deec6bde16adc4199fecb68720ee5eb7251ffcea0dbd0f7781eb9ac87babe2fb62ef0096c1c0351a937d62c34edc5580da1584a53f23b617fc