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Disclaimer Note:
The following are links to other railroad-related websites. These websites are not part of the FRA or USDOT website and the FRA Office of Research and Development has no control over their content or availability and, consequently, is not responsible for the accuracy of the information presented.
Federal Agencies
- National Transportation Safety Board
The National Transportation Safety Board is an independent Federal agency that investigates every civil aviation accident in the United States and significant accidents in the other modes of transportation, conducts special investigations and safety studies, and issues safety recommendations to prevent future accidents.
- John A. Volpe National Transportation Systems Center
The Volpe Center assists federal, state, and local governments, industry, and academia in a number of areas, including human factors research, system design, implementation, and assessment, global tracking, strategic investment and resource allocation, environmental preservation, and organizational effectiveness. In these and other areas, the Center provides its customers with valued policy support and strategic planning and analysis.
Rail-related Volpe Center links:
- Accident Prevention Division
Provides engineering, operations research, systems analysis, and related capabilities to highway, rail and marine modes for the identification, assessment and implementation of means to reduce the frequency and consequences of transportation related accidents.
- Operator Performance and Safety Analysis Division
The division resolves problems across all transportation modes by performing research to analyze the relationship between human behavior and transportation safety and productivity.
- Volpe Center GPS Coordination Group
The Volpe Center has been involved in GPS activities since the mid 1980's and has extensive expertise in GPS applications for all modes of transportation. Examples of projects at the Volpe Center involving GPS include application of GPS to Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS), and use of GPS for positive train control and hazardous materials tracking.
- Volpe Center Acoustics Facility
The Acoustics Facility anticipates future national, state, local, and international transportation-related noise issues and requirements, and respond to current needs and priorities in accordance with its role as a national organization of transportation-related noise expertise.
- Small Business Innovation Research
Congress established the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program to stimulate technological innovation, utilize small business to meet federal research and development needs, encourage participation by minority and disadvantaged businesses in technological innovation, and increase private sector commercialization of innovations derived from federal R&D.
- Transportation Research Board
The Transportation Research Board (TRB) is a unit of the National Research Council, a private, nonprofit institution that is the principal operating agency of the National Academy of Sciences and the National Academy of Engineering. The Board's mission is to promote innovation and progress in transportation by stimulating and conducting research, facilitating the dissemination of information, and encouraging the implementation of research results.
- DOT Intelligent Transportation Systems Joint Program Office
Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) represent the next step in the evolution of the nation's entire transportation system. As information technologies and advances in electronics continue to revolutionize all aspects of our modern-day world, from our homes and offices to our schools and even our recreation, they are also being applied to our transportation network. These technologies include the latest in computers, electronics, communications and safety systems.
State Agencies
Private Sector Resources
- Association of American Railroads
The Association of American Railroads (AAR) represents North America's major freight railroads and Amtrak. AAR strives to help make the rail industry increasingly safe, efficient and productive by conducting and coordinating research, development and other support programs; facilitating the seamless exchange of electronic information among railroads, their customers and suppliers; and Advocating the interests of railroads in the public policy arena.
- TGV Pages
Internet's largest site on French high speed rail, since 1995
- InterCityExpress (ICE) (Germany)
These unofficial pages provide information about the current and future generations of the ICE, the high-speed train in Germany and Switzerland, soon in the Netherlands and other neighboring countries too.
- Pennsylvania Railroad Attractions
http://www.railterminal.com/parr.html
- Railway Technical Research Institute (Japan)
The aim of RTRI is to develop basic technology and research applications, to promote technology transfer to Japan Railways companies, to promote the Maglev (magnetic levitation) system with the technology inherited from the former Japanese National Railways, and to study safety measures.
- High Speed Rail/Maglev AssociationThe High Speed Ground Transportation Association was organized in 1983 to advocate the integration of high-speed ground transportation service in North America and worldwide as a necessary addition to existing transportation networks.
University Resources
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