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Book Enhanced Traffic Control Devices and Railroad Operations for Highway railroad Grade Crossings

Download or read book Enhanced Traffic Control Devices and Railroad Operations for Highway railroad Grade Crossings written by Daniel B. Fambro and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report summarizes four research reports completed as part of a study focusing on improving safety at highway railroad grade crossings. The objective of this research was to develop, test, evaluate, and recommend improved methods for communicating with drivers at both active and passive highway -railroad grade crossings. The reports included in this summary are identified below. Enhanced Traffic Control Devices and Railroad Operations for Highway-Railroad Grade Crossings: First-Year Activities. Report FHWA/TX-98/1469-1. Enhanced Traffic Control Devices and Railroad Operations for Highway-Railroad Grade Crossings: Second-Year Activities. Report FHWA/TX-98/1469-2. Enhanced Traffic Control Devices and Railroad Operations for Highway-Railroad Grade Crossings: Third-Year Activities. Report FHWA/TX-98/1469-3. Enhanced Traffic Control Devices and Railroad Operations for Highway-Railroad Grade Crossings: Public Safety Education Materials. Report FHWA/TX-98/1469-4.

Book An Evaluation of Traffic Control Devices and Driver Distraction on Driver Behavior at Railway highway Grade Crossings

Download or read book An Evaluation of Traffic Control Devices and Driver Distraction on Driver Behavior at Railway highway Grade Crossings written by Radhameris A. Gomez Gabriel and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At-grade crossings (grade crossings) are those crossings in which any part of a roadway intersects with railroad tracks. Safety at these railroad-highway grade crossings is a major concern, with traffic control warning devices serving as the main mechanisms for improving safety. There are three factors that influence a driver's behavior at a given crossing. First, traffic control devices, including warning devices at the railroad-highway grade crossings, provide the driver with information whose impact will depend in part on the likelihood that the driver knows whether to glance in the direction of the device based on prior experience, and in part on what the driver understands the warning device to mean. Second, assuming that the driver identifies the warning, the driver's prior knowledge influences his or her expectancy regarding various railroad-highway grade crossing situations and, therefore, the way in which the driver responds to the hazard presented by the crossing. Finally, the driver's own physiological (e.g., impaired) and psychological (e.g., distracted) state will modify the role that conspicuity and expectancy have on the driver's behavior. This dissertation centers on the impact of distraction and the effect of traffic control and warning devices have on stopping behavior and glance behaviors at non-gated railroad-highway grade crossings and studies a possible countermeasure which when combined with traffic control and warning devices can mitigate the effects of distraction due to less than optimal glance patterns. Two driving simulator experiments were conducted that arguably targeted the most critical need, in particular the need to identify the role that distraction has on the effectiveness of traffic control and warning devices at grade crossings. Ninety-nine participants were evaluated across two driving simulator experiments. For the first experiment, the role distraction plays in reducing the benefit of crossbuck and flashing lights was analyzed. Participants either engaged in a distracting task or did not engage. The secondary tasks included a mock cell phone conversation or an in-vehicle task where the participant driver was asked to change the radio station. The first experiment showed participants in all groups had trouble navigating the grade crossing environment thus pointing to the need to evaluate supplementary treatments which may benefit driver behavior at these crossings. The second simulator experiment evaluated the impact of the dynamic envelope pavement markings on driver glance pattern and behavior as they approached grade crossings while drivers also performed a distracting or non-distracting task. Results show that the addition of these markings can alert drivers of the presence of a grade crossing with anticipation, and as a result induce drivers to glance more and potentially stop in higher proportions than when the markings are not present.

Book Railroad Highway Grade Crossing Handbook

Download or read book Railroad Highway Grade Crossing Handbook written by United States. Federal Highway Administration. Office of Engineering. Railroads and Utilities Branch and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This handbook briefly describes how growth of railroads and highways resulted in a proliferation of grade crossings and then discusses the variety of methods developed to warn pedestrians and vehicles of approaching trains. It is aimed primarily at providing railroad, state and municipal personnel with information which can help in cooperative efforts to improve grade crossing safety and efficiency. The book describes conditions and requirements at crossing; facilitates understanding of the elements of crossing systems; provides a compendium of existing grade crossing technology; serves as a guideline to aid in implementing improvements to grade crossings; aids in understanding and applying new technology; and serves as a basic text for training programs.

Book Traffic Control Devices Visibility and Railroad Grade Crossings

Download or read book Traffic Control Devices Visibility and Railroad Grade Crossings written by National Research Council (U.S.). Transportation Research Board and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Transportation Research Record 1495 contains the following papers: Effective use of variable message signs: Lessons learned through development of users' manuals; Motorist interpretation of yellow X and yellow diagonal arrow in freeway lane control signal array; Effects of pavement markings on driver behavior at freeway lane drop exits; Comparative study of advance warning signs at high speed signalized intersections; Evaluation of strobe lights in red lens of traffic signals; High-volume pedestrian crosswalk time requirements; Empirical analysis of traffic characteristics at two-way stop-controlled intersections in Alaska; Evaluation of proposed minimum retroreflectivity requirements for traffic signs; Detectability of pavement markings under stationary and dynamic conditions as a function of retroreflective brightness; Visibility of new yellow center stripes as a function of obliteration; Effects of lateral separation between double center-stripe pavement markings on visibility under nighttime driving conditions; Curve radius perception accuracy as function of number of delineation devices (Chevrons); Knowledge-based personal computer software package for applying and placing curve delineation devices; Visibility of new pavement markings at night under low-beam illumination; Loss of visibility distance caused by automobile windshields at night; Traffic sign reading distances and times during night driving; Yellow pavement markings with yellow nighttime color; Application of geographic information systems rail-highway grade crossing safety; Evaluation of accuracy of U.S. DOT rail-highway grade crossing accident prediction models.

Book Implementation Report of the USDOT Grade Crossing Safety Task Force

Download or read book Implementation Report of the USDOT Grade Crossing Safety Task Force written by United States. Dept. of Transportation. Grade Crossing Safety Task Force and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Traffic control Devices for Passive Railroad highway Grade Crossings

Download or read book Traffic control Devices for Passive Railroad highway Grade Crossings written by Neil D. Lerner and published by Transportation Research Board. This book was released on 2002 with total page 49 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Rail highway Crossings Study

Download or read book Rail highway Crossings Study written by United States. Office of Highway Safety and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The last report to Congress on rail-highway crossing safety was in 1971-72. Since then, several actions and changes have occurred. These are discussed in the Executive Summary which is included in this report. This discussion is followed by 8 chapters. The final chapter summarizes the findings of this study on each of nine identified issues, as well as other issues identified during the course of the study.

Book Drivers Duties at Railroad Grade Crossings

Download or read book Drivers Duties at Railroad Grade Crossings written by Edward F. Kearney and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Rail highway Crossing Safety

Download or read book Rail highway Crossing Safety written by and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Action Plan presents a multi-faceted, multi-modal approach for improving safety at our nation's highway-rail crossings and for the prevention of trespassing on the rights-of-way of our nation's railroads. It is multi-faceted in that it presents enforcement, engineering, education, research, promotional and legislative initiatives addressing crossings of both light and conventional rail rights-of-way by public and private streets and highways. The objectives were to reduce the number of highway-rail crossing accidents and casualties while not impeding, but facilitating, the contribution potential of the highway and rail infrastructure on the nation's economy.

Book Railroad highway Grade crossing Safety and S 2644 the Increased Railroad Locomotive Visibility Act

Download or read book Railroad highway Grade crossing Safety and S 2644 the Increased Railroad Locomotive Visibility Act written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. Subcommittee on Surface Transportation and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: