
FRA Proposes to Improve Crash Survivability of Locomotive ‘Black Box’
WASHINGTON – Event recorders, the train equivalent of an airplane’s “black box,” will be improved to make sure critical information survives train accidents according to a proposed rule issued June 30 by the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA). “The survival of data is key to understanding why a train accident happened,” said FRA Acting Administrator Betty Monro. “Having a better ‘black box’ will improve our ability to prevent future accidents.” The Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) published in today’s Federal Register addresses several safety recommendations made by the National Transportation Safety Board to improve the quality of data available for post-accident