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View Resource Railroad and Locomotive Technology Roadmap

The Transportation Technology Research and Development Center at Argonne National Laboratory produced this roadmap in December 2002. The 70-page document mainly focuses on energy saving techniques to increase the fuel efficiency of diesel engines. A research objective identified in the report is to improve "total railroad average fuel efficiency by 50% by 2020," and ways to accomplish this goal...

https://publications.anl.gov/anlpubs/2003/02/45512.pdf