Human Factors Issues in Rail Safety
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure. Subcommittee on Railroads
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Published: 2007
Total Pages: 376
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure. Subcommittee on Railroads
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Published: 2007
Total Pages: 376
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure. Subcommittee on Railroads, Pipelines, and Hazardous Materials
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Published: 2007
Total Pages: 280
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Joseph A. Christoff
Publisher: DIANE Publishing
Published: 1998-05
Total Pages: 73
ISBN-13: 0788149415
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In 1980, the Staggers Rail Act fostered substantial changes in the railroad industry. By 1995, fewer large freight railroads accounted for most of the industry's revenue and train miles. At the same time, these freight railroads substantially reduced their workforce and track networks. Congress and railroad labor have raised concerns that these changes in the industry could compromise safety. This report provides information on operational and safety trends in the railroad industry and describes how the Federal Railroad Admin. has responded to these trends by developing a new partnering approach for improving safety on the nation's rail lines.
Author: United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment
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Published: 1978
Total Pages: 252
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Energy and Commerce. Subcommittee on Transportation and Hazardous Materials
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Published: 1991
Total Pages: 108
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: United States. Federal Railroad Administration. Office of Safety
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Published: 1992
Total Pages: 200
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Energy and Commerce. Subcommittee on Transportation and Hazardous Materials
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Published: 1991
Total Pages: 368
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Sharon Niel
Publisher: Nova Science Publishers
Published: 2014
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781633213647
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The Federal Railroad Administration's (FRA) rail-safety oversight framework relies on inspections to ensure railroads comply with federal safety regulations. FRA inspects railroad infrastructure and operations, identifies safety defects, and may, if warranted, cite the railroads for violations of federal safety regulations. This book examines the overall framework that FRA, the states, and the railroads use to ensure rail safety; the extent to which FRA and the railroads assess safety risks and allocate resources to address those risks; and what challenges, if any, exist to FRA's current safety framework, and what ongoing and emerging issues FRA faces.
Author: Ian Savage
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2012-12-06
Total Pages: 236
ISBN-13: 146155571X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The American public has a fascination with railroad wrecks that goes back a long way. One hundred years ago, staged railroad accidents were popular events. At the Iowa State fair in 1896, 89,000 people paid $20 each, at current prices, to see two trains, throttles wide open, collide with each other. "Head-on Joe" Connolly made a business out of "cornfield meets" holding seventy-three events in thirty-six years. Picture books of train wrecks do good business presumably because a train wreck can guarantee a spectacular destruction of property without the messy loss of life associated with aircraft accidents. A "train wreck" has also entered the popular vocabulary in a most unusual way. When political manoeuvering leads to failure to pass the federal budget, and a shutdown is likely of government services, this is widely called a "train wreck. " In business and team sports, bumbling and lack of coordination leading to a spectacular and public failure to perform is also called "causing a train wreck. " A person or organization who is disorganized may be labelled a "train wreck. " It is therefore not surprising that the public perception of the safety of railroads centers on images of twisted metal and burning tank cars, and a general feeling that these events occur quite often. After a series of railroad accidents, such as occurred in the winter of 1996 or the summer of 1997, there are inevitable calls that government "should do something.