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NTSB
Railroad Accident Report
Abbreviations and Acronyms
AAR | Association of American Railroads |
ACSES | Advanced Civil Speed Enforcement System |
AIS | Abbreviated Injury Scale |
Amtrak | National Railroad Passenger Corporation |
ATC | automatic train control |
BLET | Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen |
CFR | Code of Federal Regulations |
Conrail | Consolidated Rail Corporation |
CT | computed tomography |
CRM | crew resource management |
DOT | US Department of Transportation |
EMS | Emergency Medical Services |
eTicketing | electronic ticketing |
FAST | Fixing America’s Surface Transportation |
FRA | Federal Railroad Administration |
GAO | Government Accountability Office |
MARC | Maryland Area Regional Commuter |
MCI | mass casualty incident |
Metra | Northeast Illinois Regional Commuter Railroad |
MP | milepost |
NORAC | Northeast Operating Rules Advisory Committee (Operating Rulebook) |
NPRM | notice of proposed rulemaking |
NTSB | National Transportation Safety Board |
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