Federal Railroad Administration Seeks 9-1-1 Input
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Over the course of the last four months, TRAINFO has been conducting research with the US Department of Transportation, Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) to quantify the impact blocked railroad crossings have on emergency responders, and to evaluate the effectiveness predicted train occurrence and duration information can provide to the emergency response process.
Early results of the research have supported the need for predicted train occurrence and duration information in the emergency response process. Additionally, the results are showing the most effective place in the emergency response process to inject this information is at the dispatch level.
To support the research, TRAINFO, on behalf of the FRA is seeking members of the emergency communications agencies to participate in an interview process to evaluate the best use of predicted train occurrence and duration information in the emergency response process. The interviews are expected to take no longer than 15-minutes and will serve to evaluate if the early results of the research are a trend, or if they simply represent outlier scenarios.
Interested parties should contact Neil Ternowetsky before March 15, 2020.
