Rail Projects

Policy Support

The reports below have been archived and can be found at http://search-recherche.tc.gc.ca/archive/search.aspx

• Sustainable transportation technologies – forecast and framework for action

Equipment

The reports below have been archived and can be found at http://search-recherche.tc.gc.ca/archive/search.aspx

• Association of American Railroads (AAR) tests of a lightweight steered-frame freight car truck
• Evaluation of a steered-frame freight car truck
• Steered freight car truck: endurance testing
• Study of systems designed to indicate the position of hand-operated switches on rail lines without signals
• Traction motor bearing study

Inspection

The reports below have been archived and can be found at http://search-recherche.tc.gc.ca/archive/search.aspx

• Advanced rail inspection system
• Damaged switch point analysis
• Diagnosis of locomotive diesel engine condition
• Dynatrak II prototype
• Guided radar detection system
• Landslide hazard risk mitigation
• Monitoring of railway bearings
• Prediction of wheel loads and track defects
• Track performance standards: evaluation of track geometry-related derailments and assessment of LVSafe’s risk targeting
• Track performance standards: in-service assessment of the LVSafe Model on CN and CP track networks
• Vehicle-based measures of track performance

Regulation and Standards: Crossing Safety

The reports below have been archived and can be found at http://search-recherche.tc.gc.ca/archive/search.aspx

• Highway-Railway Grade Crossing Research Program
  
  • Analysis of the human factors contributing to grade crossing accidents
  • Cost-effective cantilever structure for grade crossing signals
  • Development and implementation of a risk assessment model for grade crossings
  • Collision frequency and consequence model
  • Decision support model for prioritizing safety improvement programs
  • Development of standard for light emitting diode (LED) signal lights designed to improve warning signals at grade crossings
  • Evaluation of a low-cost grade crossing warning system
  • Evaluation of automated enforcement of grade crossing signals
  • Evaluation of the safety merits of wayside horn technology
  • Grade crossing contraventions and motor carrier assessment
  • Identification and examination of safety at private crossings
  • ITS strategies for commercial vehicles at highway-railway grade crossings
  • Locomotive horn study
  • Rail trespassing occurrences and countermeasures
  • Second train warning – safety sign concept
  • Second train warnings at grade crossings
  • Visual behaviour and conspicuity/effectiveness of grade crossing elements
  • Winter testing of remote track switch position indicator and grade crossing warning system for farm and private crossings
  • Related research: Impact of heavy vehicles on crossing safety
  • Related research: LIDAR survey of grade crossings
• Second-train warning systems
• Use of reflectors at railway crossings

Regulation and Standards: Energy and Environment

The reports below have been archived and can be found at http://search-recherche.tc.gc.ca/archive/search.aspx

• Benchmark testing of biodiesel blends as fuel for Canadian railway operations
• Effects of diesel fuel quality on locomotive emissions
• Impact of new U.S. locomotive emissions standards
• Potential of bio-diesel fuel for reducing locomotive emissions
• Program definition study for feasibility of a natural gas locomotive demonstration program
• Review of technology for locomotives fuelled with natural gas
• Simplified test for fuel additives – Phase 1
• Simplified test for fuel additives – Phase 2
• Simplified test for fuel additives – Phase 3
• Simplified test for fuel additives – Phase 4
• Technologies to reduce locomotive emissions without a fuel penalty
• Update of the Canadian locomotive duty cycle

Regulation and Standards: Ground Hazards

The reports below have been archived and can be found at http://search-recherche.tc.gc.ca/archive/search.aspx

• Railway Ground Hazard Research Program
  
  • Ground penetrating radar survey
  • Hazard monitoring and event technology
  • Light detecting and ranging (LIDAR) survey
  • Mobile terrestrial and low-altitude airborne LIDAR data collection, processing, and assessment of the Algoma Central Railway
  • Rail line seismic rockfall monitoring system  Phase 1
  • Rail line seismic rockfall monitoring  Phase 2

Regulation and Standards: Human Factors

The reports below have been archived and can be found at http://search-recherche.tc.gc.ca/archive/search.aspx

• Study of one-person train operations

Regulation and Standards: Infrastructure

The reports below have been archived and can be found at http://search-recherche.tc.gc.ca/archive/search.aspx

• Track curvature and track geometry safety standards