FY 2010 Railroad Research and Development Safety Evaluation of HSR Bogie Concepts | Apply Online

Opportunity Summary:

The FY 2010 Railroad Research and Development grant opportunity titled "Safety Evaluation of HSR Bogie Concepts" (Funding Opportunity Number FR RRD 10 017) was a discretionary, research-focused grant issued by the U.S. Department of Transportation, Federal Railroad Administration (FRA). It was positioned under the Railroad Research and Development program (CFDA 20.313) and targeted a specific technical need tied to high-speed rail: evaluating the safety risks associated with high-speed rail (HSR) locomotive truck, or bogie, concepts before major investments are made in design and development. In practical terms, the opportunity centered on doing safety work early, when design choices can still be influenced, rather than discovering problems later through costly prototypes or operational testing.

The core purpose of the grant was a proactive assessment of risks related to HSR locomotive truck safety. The FRA description emphasizes that high-speed locomotive trucks introduce unique safety considerations and that those risks should be systematically identified and evaluated prior to committing significant resources to truck development for high-speed rail service. A key theme in the announcement is the need to incorporate fail-safe considerations into high-speed locomotive development. That implies a focus on ensuring that the truck/bogie design either prevents hazardous failures from occurring, limits the severity of failures if they occur, or maintains a safe state under fault conditions. Although the public synopsis is brief, the intent is clearly aligned with safety engineering practices such as hazard identification, failure modes analysis, and evaluating how design features behave under abnormal or degraded conditions.

From a funding and award structure standpoint, the FRA anticipated making a single award (Expected Awards: 1) with an estimated total funding amount of $300,000. The award ceiling was also $300,000, with an award floor of $0, and there was no cost sharing or matching requirement. The funding instrument type was a grant, and the activity category was Science and Technology and other Research and Development, reflecting that the work was intended to generate technical safety evaluation outputs rather than support construction or routine operations.

Eligibility for this opportunity was highly restricted. The announcement states that only General Electric Transportation was eligible to apply. While the listing includes the broad category "Others" in the standard field, the eligibility clarification explicitly limited applications to that single entity, meaning it was effectively a sole-eligible applicant competition rather than an open solicitation.

Timing details show that the opportunity was posted and created on June 25, 2010, with an original and current closing date of August 6, 2010, and it was archived on September 5, 2010. Applicants needing help accessing the full announcement electronically were directed to the GrantSolutions Help Desk (1-866-577-0771, help@grantsolutions.gov) with business hours listed as Monday through Friday, 8:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. Eastern Time.

In summary, this FRA grant was a targeted, one-award, $300,000 research grant intended to support an upfront, fail-safe-oriented safety evaluation of high-speed rail locomotive truck (bogie) concepts, with eligibility limited exclusively to General Electric Transportation and an application window running from late June to early August 2010.

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