Assessing and Mitigating Electrical Fires on Transit Vehicles
Transit vehicle fires have safety implications for passengers and
employees as well as liability implications for manufacturers, suppliers, and operators. Many of the
electrical/arcing fire events experienced in the transit industry have led to a total loss of the vehicle
and/or serious smoke incidents.
The TRB Transit Cooperative Research Program's
TCRP Research Report 229:
Assessing and Mitigating Electrical Fires on Transit Vehicles
provides transit systems with information and
techniques to avoid the interruption of revenue service, passenger injuries, and expenditures of
operating and capital funds that occur as the result of fires on transit buses and rail vehicles.
Supplemental to the report is a
Presentation describing details of the project.
This Summary Last Modified On: 12/2/2021