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University Transportation Center for Railway Safety (UTCRS)
  • UTCRS Director, Prof. Constantine Tarawneh, was a guest speaker at the news show “Morning Rush” that aired Monday morning at 7 am on 3/6/2023. The topic of discussion revolved around the recent catastrophic train derailment that occurred in East Palestine, OH on 2/3/2023.
  • UTRGV professors and students, license patent for innovative railcar inventions
  • Dr. Constantine Tarawneh, UTCRS Director, accompanies 2 undergraduate and 2 graduate student recipients of the Eisenhower fellowship to the 2023 TRB Conference to present their research in the conference poster session.
  • Applications for the UTCRS 2023 are now available
  • 2022 STEM Summer Camps Elementary Winners Being Recognized During the Closing Ceremony. The Winners are a Team of 5 Girls Calling Themselves “Girl Power”
2022 Railway Safety Summer Camp Applications are now Available!! Parent Orientation Session #1 Click here for more information!
Student Opportunities Student Opportunities Transportation industry and transportation engineering student opportunities: Research Assistantships, Work-study positions, Scholarships, Conferences,...
2022 UTCRS Summer Camps Closing Ceremony RSVP! 2022 UTCRS Summer Camps Closing Ceremony RSVP! Click here for more information!

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Center for Railway Safety (UTCRS)
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Email: railwaysafety@utrgv.edu
Phone: (956) 665-8878
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About The UTCRS Consortium

The Office of the Assistant Secretary of Transportation for Research and Technology (OST-R) within the US Department of Transportation (USDOT) awarded, in the fall of 2013, a grant to establish the University Transportation Center for Railway Safety (UTCRS). At present, the Center for Railway Safety, which is headquartered at The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley (UTRGV), operates as a consortium with the Texas A&M Transportation Institute (TTI), the University of Nebraska Transportation Center (NTC), the University of South Carolina (UofSC), the University of California-Riverside (UCR), and South Texas College (STC).

As a Tier 1 University Transportation Center, the UTCRS and its team of educational institutions are focusing on promoting safety of railway transportation systems. Our primary strategic goal is safety of railways systems, with secondary goals of economic strength and global competitiveness, as well as climate and sustainability. The UTCRS consortium research thrust focuses on the development, testing, implementation, and technology transfer of smart technologies for safer railways in collaboration with rail industry partners.

 

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