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Total Pages : 216 pages
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Download or read book Railroad Safety Statistics written by and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ian Savage
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 146155571X
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (615 download)
Download or read book The Economics of Railroad Safety written by Ian Savage and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
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Total Pages : 140 pages
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Download or read book Railroad Facts written by and published by . This book was released on 1944 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : United States. Federal Railroad Administration. Office of Safety
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Total Pages : 200 pages
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Download or read book FRA Guide for Preparing Accidents/incidents Reports written by United States. Federal Railroad Administration. Office of Safety and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : George Bibel
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 1421405903
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (214 download)
Download or read book Train Wreck written by George Bibel and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2012-10-07 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Trains are massive—with some weighing 15,000 tons or more. When these metal monsters collide or go off the rails, their destructive power becomes clear. In this book, George Bibel presents riveting tales of trains gone wrong, the detective work of finding out why, and the safety improvements that were born of tragedy. Train Wreck details 17 crashes in which more than 200 people were killed. Readers follow investigators as they sift through the rubble and work with computerized event recorders to figure out what happened. Using a mix of eyewitness accounts and scientific explanations, Bibel draws us into a world of forensics and human drama. Train Wreck is a fascinating exploration of• runaway trains• bearing failures• metal fatigue• crash testing • collision dynamics• bad rails
Author : Mark Aldrich
Publisher : Johns Hopkins University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801894022
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (94 download)
Download or read book Death Rode the Rails written by Mark Aldrich and published by Johns Hopkins University Press. This book was released on 2009-11-09 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For most of the 19th and much of the 20th centuries, railroads dominated American transportation. They transformed life and captured the imagination. Yet by 1907 railroads had also become the largest cause of violent death in the country, that year claiming the lives of nearly twelve thousand passengers, workers, and others. In Death Rode the Rails Mark Aldrich explores the evolution of railroad safety in the United States by examining a variety of incidents: spectacular train wrecks, smaller accidents in shops and yards that devastated the lives of workers and their families, and the deaths of thousands of women and children killed while walking on or crossing the street-grade tracks. The evolution of railroad safety, Aldrich argues, involved the interplay of market forces, science and technology, and legal and public pressures. He considers the railroad as a system in its entirety: operational realities, technical constraints, economic history, internal politics, and labor management. Aldrich shows that economics initially encouraged American carriers to build and operate cheap and dangerous lines. Only over time did the trade-off between safety and output—shaped by labor markets and public policy—motivate carriers to develop technological improvements that enhanced both productivity and safety. A fascinating account of one of America's most important industries and its dangers, Death Rode the Rails will appeal to scholars of economics and the history of transportation, technology, labor, regulation, safety, and business, as well as to railroad enthusiasts.
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Total Pages : 544 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (555 download)
Download or read book National Transportation Statistics written by and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Daniel Brod
Publisher : Transportation Research Board
ISBN 13 : 0309283485
Total Pages : 119 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (92 download)
Download or read book Comprehensive Costs of Highway-Rail Grade Crossing Crashes written by Daniel Brod and published by Transportation Research Board. This book was released on 2013 with total page 119 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "TRB's National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) Report 755: Comprehensive Costs of Highway-Rail Grade Crossing Crashes describes a process for estimating the costs of highway-rail grade crossing crashes. A spreadsheet-based tool to facilitate use of the cost estimation process is available online." --Publisher description.
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Total Pages : 144 pages
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Download or read book State Transportation Statistics written by and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation
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Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (121 download)
Download or read book Railroad Safety written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : United States. Federal Railroad Administration. Office of Safety
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Total Pages : 100 pages
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Download or read book Accident/incident Bulletin written by United States. Federal Railroad Administration. Office of Safety and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. Subcommittee on Surface Transportation
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Total Pages : 88 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (51 download)
Download or read book Railroad Safety written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. Subcommittee on Surface Transportation and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Energy and Commerce. Subcommittee on Transportation and Hazardous Materials
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Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (121 download)
Download or read book Railroad Safety written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Energy and Commerce. Subcommittee on Transportation and Hazardous Materials and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : United States. General Accounting Office
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book Railroad Safety written by United States. General Accounting Office and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 312 pages
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Download or read book Transportation Statistics Annual Report written by and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce. Subcommittee on Surface Transportation
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Total Pages : 476 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (6 download)
Download or read book Federal Railroad Safety Act of 1969 written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce. Subcommittee on Surface Transportation and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Committee Serial No. 91-32. Considers S. 1933 and similar S. 2915 and S. 3061, to authorize DOT inspection and regulation of railroad cars and equipment to ensure railroad safety. July 14 hearing was held in Indianapolis, Ind., to conduct an investigation into several Indiana railroad accidents.
Author : Wendell Fletcher
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0788180738
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (881 download)
Download or read book Transportation Statistics Annual Report 1998 written by Wendell Fletcher and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 1999-07 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Assesses the nation's transportation system and the state of transportation statistics. Brings together in one source information about how the transportation system is used, how well it works, its economic contributions and costs, and its unintended consequences for safety, energy import dependency, and the environment. Includes: transportation and the economy; transportation safety; transportation, energy, and the environment; the state of transportation statistics; long-distance travel in the U.S.; long-distance freight transportation; U.S./metric conversions and energy unit equivalents. Over 100 charts and tables.
