CUTR Transit Standards Working Group February 21‐22, 2018 MARTA, Atlanta, GA
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February 21‐22, 2018 CUTR Standards Working Group CUTR, Tampa, FL (11/3/2017) 1 CUTR Transit Standards Working Group February 21‐22, 2018 MARTA, Atlanta, GA 2 1 February 21‐22, 2018 Welcome and Introductions . Welcome from MARTA’s Executive Team . Lisa Staes –CUTR, Director Transit Safety and Workforce Development Programs . Safety Briefing –AJ Joshi, MARTA . Transit Standards Working Group Facilitator –James Tucci, K & J Safety and Security Consulting Services, Inc., President & Chief Engineer 3 CUTR Working Group Members . AJ Joshi, MARTA . Patrick Moore, Greeley‐ . Brian Alberts, APTA Evans Transit (CO) . Charlie Dickson, CTAA . Paul Goyette, Lee Tran . Colin Mulloy, HART . Rich Czeck, GCRTA . Ed Watt, ATU . Robin Philips, National RTAP . Jim Fox, SEPTA . Ron Nickle, MBTA . Kurt Wilkinson, TriMet . Stephan Parker, TRB . Narayana Sundaram, APTA . Susan Hausmann, TxDOT . Ni Lee, BART . Vijay Khawani, LAMetro . Pat Lavin, WMATA 4 2 February 21‐22, 2018 Agenda –February 21, 2018 8:00am Welcome and Introductions 9:00am Working Group Project Updates 11:00am New Focus Areas 12:00pm Working Lunch 1:30pm Day 1 Discussion/Day 2 Agenda Review 2:00pm Tour –MARTA TrackSafe Deployment 5 Agenda –February 22, 2018 8:00am Day 1 Recap – Discussion 8:30am Review Top 3 (+1) Safety Concerns 10:15am Recommended Focus Area Research Priorities 12:00pm Working Lunch 1:00pm APTA Standards and Focus Area Research Recommendations 2:15pm Volpe Efforts Underway to Develop a Detailed Safety Event Causal Taxonomy of the Transit Industry 3:45pm Session Review and Wrap Up 4:30pm Adjourn 6 3 February 21‐22, 2018 Minute Review Session #3 Microsoft Word November 2‐3, 2017 | Tampa, FL Document Major Topics Covered Day 1 Major Topics Covered Day 2 . Working Group . Top 3 Safety Concerns Subcommittee Project Relevant to Updates Events/Incidents . APTA Standards Program . Briefing –SRI Process for Selecting Rail Research Process Projects and Overview of . New Focus Areas Implementation of Results of SRI Research into AAR . APTA Safety Management Standards Program . Potential New Focus Areas . Safety Certification for . Discussion of Sharing Projects Research 7 Working Group Project Updates 8 4 February 21‐22, 2018 Transportation Technology Center, Inc., a subsidiary of the Association of American Railroads Review of Standards for Track Inspection and Maintenance © TTCI/AAR. p9 ® Scope of Work ♦ Track Inspection – ●What types of inspections are being done on track? ●What standards define track inspections? ●Frequency of inspections? ●Technologies being utilized for inspections? ♦ Track Maintenance – ●What standards define how maintenance should be performed and to what criteria? ●Program maintenance/track renewals vs. local maintenance © TTCI/AAR, 2/14/2018. p10 5 February 21‐22, 2018 ® Tasks in Statement of Work ♦ Literature Review – U.S. Standards and Non-U.S. Standards ●Track Inspection ●Track Maintenance ♦ Transit agency data collection – what are agencies currently using for best practices of inspection and maintenance? ●Will benchmark with Class 1 Railroads ♦ Listing of technologies being used for inspection including overview of level of implementation (i.e. further testing needed?) ♦ Gap analysis – what standards do not exist for track inspection and maintenance? ♦ Recommendations © TTCI/AAR, 2/14/2018. p11 ® Project Status: Current Work ♦ Literature Review ●Review of track-caused accidents ▲Federal Railroad Administration ▲Federal Transit Administration ▲National Transportation Safety Board ●Search of relevant standards ▲North America ▲Europe ▲Asia ●Draft comparison document in process ♦ Survey of Track Inspection and Maintenance ●Survey developed and distributed to State Safety Officers ▲30 responses as of 2/05/18 © TTCI/AAR, 2/14/2018. p12 6 February 21‐22, 2018 FRA Derailments with Passenger Trains (Yes) and ® Without (No) – Breakdown 10 Year Total (2007-2016) 13,422 682 226 Y N (blank) Note: Data was downloaded 11/8/2017 © TTCI/AAR, 1/11/2012, Filename p13 FRA Passenger Derailments by Cause Group ® 10 Year Total (2007-2016) 19 2 86 29 90 E - Mechanical and Electrical Failures H - Train Operation - Human Factors M - Miscellaneous S - Signal and Communication T - Track, Roadbed and Structures Note: Data was downloaded 11/8/2017 © TTCI/AAR, 1/11/2012, Filename p14 7 February 21‐22, 2018 FRA Passenger Derailments by Track Subgroup ® 10 Year Total (2007-2016) 1 4 31 33 21 T0 - Roadbed T1 - Track Geometry T2 - Rail, Joint Bar and Rail Anchoring T3 - Frogs, Switches and Track Appliances T4 - Other Way and Structure Note: Data was downloaded 11/8/2017 © TTCI/AAR, 1/11/2012, Filename p15 NTD Data by Incident Category ® 9 Year Total (2008-2016) 40,445 8,814 1,011 1,864 2,756 505 Fire Non-RGX Collision Other RGX Collision Derailment Security © TTCI/AAR, 1/11/2012, Filename p16 8 February 21‐22, 2018 NTD Data, Derailments Only ® 9 Year Total (2008-2016) 140 131 Data in 2015-2016 includes 126 “yard” derailments 120 100 80 60 Derailments 44 39 38 35 40 31 34 27 20 0 Note: Data was downloaded 11/8/2017 © TTCI/AAR, 1/11/2012, Filename p17 NTD Derailments by Type ® 9 Year Total (2008-2016) 475 30 Other Track Related Note: Data was downloaded 11/8/2017 © TTCI/AAR, 1/11/2012, Filename p18 9 February 21‐22, 2018 NTD Derailments by FRA Track Subgroup ® 9 Year Total (2008-2016) Note: Data was downloaded 11/8/2017 © TTCI/AAR, 1/11/2012, Filename p19 NTD Derailments, Track Specific ® 9 Years (2008-2016) 20 18 16 14 12 10 8 Derailments 6 6 5 5 4 4 333 2 1 0 Note: Data was downloaded 11/8/2017 Note: NTD data is from 2008 through 2016 © TTCI/AAR, 1/11/2012, Filename p20 10 February 21‐22, 2018 ® Review of NTSB Accident Reports ♦ WMATA – July 29, 2016 ●Wide gage due to tie deterioration/fastener failure ●Over 400 inches of rail with no fastening ●Monthly track inspections versus prescribed bi-weekly ♦ Amtrak – March 14, 2016 ●Unattended truck rolled into track causing misalignment ●Incident not reported to BNSF ●Passenger train encountered track misalignment and derailed ♦ Metro-North – July 18, 2013 ●CSX freight train derailment from lateral movement of rail ●Improper fasteners allowed lateral rail movement ●Fouled ballast, rail seat deterioration, center-cracked ties © TTCI/AAR, 2/14/2018. p21 ® Review of NTSB Accident Reports ♦ WMATA – January 7, 2007 ●Derailment of train through a crossover ●Improperly trued wheel with surface roughness ●Missing guardrail on turnout ♦ CTA – July 11, 2016 ●Wide gage resulted in derailment of train ●Corroded tie plates and fasteners with water-damaged half ties ●Inadequate inspection (entire section not completed) ♦ MBTA – May 4, 1998 ●Restraining rail not replaced in track after track replacement ●Derailment due to lack of restraining rail © TTCI/AAR, 2/14/2018. p22 11 February 21‐22, 2018 ® Summary of Track-Caused Accidents ♦ Rare events ♦ Trends are positive ●Number of events has been steady ▲Accounting for reporting change in 2015 ●Traffic is increasing ♦ Special trackwork is the leading cause category ●Gapped switches ●Worn, chipped or broken switch points ♦ Rail-related failures are the second leading cause ●Rail service failures ♦ Track geometry defects are the third leading cause ●Rail fastener failures ●Wide gage © TTCI/AAR, 2/14/2018. p23 ® Track Inspection Literature Review ♦ Standards reviewed to date Affiliation Country/Location Standard/Recommendation Year FRA United States Safety Standard 2014 APTA United States Safety Standard 2017 Maintenance FTA United States 2010 Recommendations TC Canada Safety Standard 2012 Inspection and Maintenance AREMA United States 2017 Recommendations CARS China Safety Standard 2017 © TTCI/AAR, 2/14/2018. p24 12 February 21‐22, 2018 ® Track Inspection Literature Review ♦ Inspection Topics ●Rail ●Continuously welded rail ●Fastening system ●Special trackwork ●Crossties ●Roadbed ●Ballast ●Track geometry ●Rail joints ●Inspection frequency © TTCI/AAR, 2/14/2018. p25 ® Track Inspection Literature Review ♦ Example: rail inspection ●Four primary topics ♦ General observations: ●FRA, APTA, FTA, TC similar ●Small differences Topics FRA APTA FTA TC Defective Rails Rail Wear Rail End Mismatch Torch Cut Rails © TTCI/AAR, 2/14/2018. p26 13 February 21‐22, 2018 ® Track Inspection Technologies ♦ Technologies reviewed to date Track Component or Inspection Technology Frequency Feature Example: LIDAR Clearance Annual Ultrasonic Lasers LIDAR Ground Penetrating Radar Thermography Machine vision Deflection (vertical) Deflection (lateral) X-ray Other © TTCI/AAR, 2/14/2018. p27 ® Track Maintenance Literature Review ♦ Slower progress to date ♦ Found fewer published standards ●Will compile best practices ●Many freight and passenger railways set maintenance limit as safety limit for one class higher track ●Variations in maintenance methods related to: ▲Relative cost of track time ▲Access and logistics issues © TTCI/AAR, 2/14/2018. p28 14 February 21‐22, 2018 ® Project Status: Current Work ♦ Survey of track inspection and maintenance ●Survey developed and distributed to State Safety Officers ▲46 question survey ─ Transit infrastructure and operations ─ Track inspection Methods Technologies ─ Track maintenance Philosophy Methods ▲30 responses as of 2/07/18 © TTCI/AAR, 2/14/2018. p29 ® Project Status: Current Work ♦ Survey of track inspection and maintenance Kenosha Area Transit ●Data on transit agencies Regional Transit Authority of New Orleans Rock Region Metro/ METRO Streetcar ▲Miles of track Regional Transportation District - Denver Sun Link - Tucson ▲Track structure Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority