STUDIES IN RAILROAD OPERATIONS AND ECONOMICS. VOLUME 1. RAILROAD CAR MOVEMENT RELIABILITY: A PRELIMINARY STUDY OF LINE-HAUL OPERATIONS

Data on road train delays due to various tyes of mechanical failures and derailments and on the duration of these delays were collected for a total of 1,065 trains operating over a single main-line division during a two-month period. These delays were classified by major type (brake, coupler, and other types of failures-not including engine failures) and by possible causal factors (train length, trailing tonnage, and track profile) operative at the time of the failure.

• Supplemental Notes:
  • See also Volume 2, PB-244 119. Prepared in cooperation with Federal Railroad Administration, Washington, D.C., Union Pacific Railroad Foundation, Omaha, Nebr., and Burlington Northern Incorporated, St. Paul, Minn.
• Corporate Authors:

  Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  Transportation Systems Division
  Cambridge, MA  United States  02139

  Federal Railroad Administration

  1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE
  Washington, DC  United States  20590

  Union Pacific Railroad Foundation

  Omaha, NE  United States 

  Burlington Northern, Incorporated

  175 East 4th Street
  St Paul, MN  United States  55101
• Authors:
  • Lang, A S
  • Reid, R M
• Publication Date: 1970-10

Media Info

• Pagination: 33 p.

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Brakes; Couplers; Economic factors; Failure; Freight cars; Freight forwarders; Freight trains; Freight transportation; Mechanical engineering; Railroad cars; Railroad transportation; Railroads; Reliability; Traffic delays; Train operation; Train operations; Vehicle design
• Old TRIS Terms: Braking systems; Car component design; Cargo transportation; Freight car component performance; Freight forwarding
• Subject Areas: Design; Economics; Freight Transportation; Railroads; Vehicles and Equipment;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00092226
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: National Technical Information Service
• Report/Paper Numbers: MIT-R70-74 Final Rpt.
• Files: NTIS, TRIS, USDOT
• Created Date: Oct 18 1976 12:00AM