Emphasis
The FRA's safety regulations target historical causal factors in order to prevent those same practices from causing additional accidents and employee injuries. Human caused accidents are the greatest single portion of all railroad accidents. Although newer regulations have been enacted to stem these human caused accidents there numbers have only been in slow decline over the past several years. There are regulations that focus on "crash worthiness," but are not taken at the expense of "collision avoidance,". As a result, American trains are considerably heavier than their foreign counterparts governed by regulations of the Paris, France-based International Union of Railways (UIC). The FRA also oversees distribution of funding to Amtrak and to the High Speed Rail initiatives currently under study in various states.
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