Preparation of a Manuscript for Publication of the Track Design Handbook for Light Rail Transit, 3rd Edition

TCRP Report 57: Track Design Handbook for Light Rail Transit, published in 2000, provides guidelines and descriptions of various types of designs for tracks of light rail transit (LRT). The track structure types covered include ballasted, direct fixation (ballastless), and embedded track. The components of the various track types are discussed in detail. The guidelines consider the characteristics and interfaces of vehicle wheels and rail, track and wheel gauges, rail sections, alignments, speeds, and track moduli.  Subsequently, TCRP Report 155: Track Design Handbook for Light Rail Transit, Second Edition, published in 2012, revised and updated the previous edition. In the 12 years since 2012, significant changes have occurred in railway track design. Several innovations and track components have been introduced, particularly in the field of direct fixation track. Advances in light rail vehicles, special trackwork (frogs), embedded track accommodations for pedestrians and bicyclists, prevention of stray current, requirements for track modulus of elasticity, and rail/structure interaction on bridges, to name a few, are topics that need to be updated and clarified. The goal of this project is to provide a comprehensive review of the guidelines for light rail track design as an update to TCRP Report 155. This review should include summaries of and references to other recent reports published on this subject.

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Language

• English

Project

• Funding: $500000
• Contract Numbers:

  Project D-25

• Sponsor Organizations:

  Transit Cooperative Research Program

  Transportation Research Board
  500 Fifth Street, NW
  Washington, DC    20001

  Federal Transit Administration

  1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE
  Washington, DC  United States  20590
• Project Managers:

  Garcia-Colberg, Mariela

• Start Date: 20240701
• Expected Completion Date: 0
• Actual Completion Date: 0

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Best practices; Design; Light rail transit; Railroad tracks
• Subject Areas: Design; Public Transportation; Railroads;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01902065
• Record Type: Research project
• Source Agency: Transportation Research Board
• Contract Numbers: Project D-25
• Files: TRB, RIP
• Created Date: Dec 13 2023 1:20PM