Technical Committees
AREMA has 29 technical committees, organized in six functional groups. The committees, whose volunteer members come from the railroad industry, meet on a regular basis and use their expertise to come up with the best methods to maintain a railroad.
- Structures
- Buildings & Support Facilities (Committee 6)
- Timber Structures (Committee 7)
- Concrete Structures & Foundations (Committee 8)
- Seismic Design for Railway Structures (Committee 9)
- Structures Maintenance & Construction (Committee 10)
- Steel Structures (Committee 15)
- Clearances (Committee 28)
- Passenger & Transit
- Commuter & Intercity Rail Systems (Committee 11)
- Rail Transit (Committee 12)
- High Speed Rail Systems (Committee 17)
- Electric Energy Utilization (Committee 33)
- Track
- Roadway & Ballast (Committee 1)
- Rail (Committee 4)
- Track (Committee 5)
- Maintenance of Way Work Equipment (Committee 27)
- Ties (Committee 30)
- Engineering Services
- Track Measuring Systems (Committee 2)
- Environmental (Committee 13)
- Yards & Terminals (Committee 14)
- Economics of Railway Engineering & Operations (Committee 16)
- Light Density & Short Line Railways (Committee 18)
- Education & Training (Committee 24)
- Communications & Signals
- Scales (Committee 34)
- Highway-Rail Grade Crossing Warning Systems (Committee 36)
- Signal Systems (Committee 37)
- Information, Defect Detection & Energy Systems (Committee 38)
- Positive Train Control (Committee 39)
- Maintenance
- Engineering Safety Steering Team (Committee 40)
- Track Maintenance Steering Team (Committee 41)
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