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 geomety 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 crash-worthiness studies.
Urban Rail Supporting Technology Program Fiscal Year 1973, Year End Summary
1974
63 pages
Report
No indication
English
Transportation & Traffic Planning , Rapid transit railways , Urban transportation , Research , Railroad tracks , Railroad cars , Test facilities , Noise abatement , Tunneling(Excavation) , Transportation planning , Crashworthiness , Commuter rail transportation , Light rail transportation , DOT/3M , DOT/2C