The Department of Transportation, Transportation Systems Center (TSC), is providing technical assistance to the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) in a program to improve railroad safety and efficiency by providing a technological basis for improvement and possible regulation in rail vehicle crashworthiness, inspection and surveillance of equipment, and other areas. As part of this program, TSC is conducting technical analyses of passenger railcar collisions, derailments, and other accidents, directed towards minimizing occupant injuries. The document, the first of four volumes, reports on the collection of data for a representative accident sample, the analysis of the data to identify injury types, locations, and, when possible, injury causal factors. Vehicle interior design details are also considered in conjunction with the accident data to compile a list of potential improvements in occupant protection.
Rail Safety/Equipment Crashworthiness. Volume I. A Systems Analysis of Injury Minimization in Rail Systems
1978
270 pages
Report
No indication
English
Transportation Safety , Railroad Transportation , Railroad cars , Passenger transportation , Collision research , Injuries , Safety engineering , Systems analysis , Accident investigations , Data processing , Design standards , Components , Railroad trains , Computerized simulation , Crashworthiness , Occupant protection , Railroad accidents , Railroad derailments , Injury causes , Vehicle interiors , Prometheus program
Rail Safety/Equipment Crashworthiness
NTIS | 1978
US rail equipment crashworthiness standards
Online Contents | 2002
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