RAILROAD CLASSIFICATION YARD TECHNOLOGY. A SURVEY AND ASSESSMENT

This report documents a survey and assessment of the current state of the art in rail freight-car classification yard technology. The major objective was the identification of research and development necessary for technological improvements in railroad classification yards. This involved a projection of future classification yard needs and a comparison of these requirements of existing technology. Separate tasks included a description of the hardware, costs, performance characteristics, and operational practices of existing yards; formulation of general yard-network interaction concepts; collection of in-depth background information concerning the yard population in the United States (categorized by type, technology, and function); estimation of the demands likely to be placed on the nation's network of freight-car terminals during the foreseeable future; and an assessment and prioritization of those areas of terminal operations that warrant further research or development.

• Record URL:
  • https://railroads.dot.gov/elibrary/railroad-classification-yard-technology-survey-and-assessment
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• Supplemental Notes:
  • See also RRIS 21 127705 7601.
• Corporate Authors:

  Stanford Research Institute

  333 Ravenswood Avenue
  Menlo Park, CA  United States  94025

  Transportation Systems Center

  55 Broadway, Kendall Square
  Cambridge, MA  United States  02142

  Federal Railroad Administration

  1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE
  Washington, DC  United States  20590
• Authors:
  • Petracek, S J
  • Moon, A E
  • Kiang, R L
  • Siddigee, M W
• Publication Date: 1977-1

Media Info

• Media Type: Digital/other
• Pagination: 343 p.

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Classification; Classification yards; Demand; Development; Evaluation; Forecasting; Freight cars; Freight terminals; Handbooks; Hump yards; Layout; Management; Networks; Planning; Railroad terminals; Railroad yards; Recommendations; Research; Statistics; Surveys; Technological forecasting; Technology assessment; Yard operations
• Uncontrolled Terms: Research and development
• Old TRIS Terms: Management planning; Operating strategies; Yard capacity; Yard layout planning; Yard throughput
• Subject Areas: Administration and Management; Data and Information Technology; Freight Transportation; Planning and Forecasting; Railroads; Research; Terminals and Facilities;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00151748
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: National Technical Information Service
• Report/Paper Numbers: DOT-TSC-FRA-76-35 Final Rpt.
• Contract Numbers: DOT-TSC-968
• Files: TRIS, USDOT
• Created Date: Apr 27 1977 12:00AM