Synopsis
This incredible DVD-ROM - greatly revised and expanded for 2010 - provides a comprehensive guide to all forms of mass transit and passenger railroading in America with an extraordinary collection of reports, studies, and documents from the Federal Transit Administration and the Federal Railroad Administration. This is the most comprehensive collection of official documents available on mass transit and passenger and freight railroading. This detailed material is heavily illustrated with color photographs, drawings, tables, and charts. The disc contains over 4 gigabytes of material, and over 205,000 pages reproduced using Adobe Acrobat software. There are over 4000 documents. There is full coverage of the U.S. Federal Transit Administration (FTA) and Federal Railroad Administration (FRA). Federal Transit Administration coverage includes the Rail Transit Safety initiative, emergency management, training and conferences, drug and alcohol issues and testing, safety and security statistics, reports and publications, news and events, planning and environment, grants and financing, legislation, regulations, and guidance, research, technical assistance, and training, technology, and much more. Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) coverage includes high-speed rail, maglev research, highway-rail grade crossing safety and trespass prevention, emergency notification systems, grade crossing modernization, quiet zones, tank car safety, rail passenger issues and corridors, the Northeast corridor, rail funding under ARRA, safety of remote control locomotive operations, Motive Power And Equipment Compliance Manual, California and other high-speed rail projects, event recorders, double stack, safety appliances, railroad employee fatalities and accidents, train horn rules, historic reports on Amtrak, Diesel Multiple Unit (DMU) self-propelled passenger rail cars, intercity passenger rail, locomotive crashworthiness, human factors in cab design, brakes, freight car reflectorization, safety advisories, track standards, hundreds of Office of Research and Development reports, and much more. This professional DVD-ROM is packed with over 205,000 pages reproduced using Adobe Acrobat PDF software - allowing direct viewing on Windows and Macintosh systems. The Acrobat cataloging technology adds enormous value and uncommon functionality to this impressive collection of government documents and material. This DVD-ROM disc is for use in a computer DVD drive. The files can be accessed from the File Explorer in the same way that you open files from a CD-ROM disc; the CD-ROM and DVD-ROM formats are functionally the same, but the DVD has more than six times greater storage capacity. Of course, this disc cannot be "played" in a DVD player connected to a television set. It contains computer-formatted data, not video.
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