Download or read book Data Analysis of Grade Crossing Incidents written by and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 4 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Incidents and fatalities at highway-rail grade crossing in the United States have declined significantly over the past two decades despite a significant increase in both train and vehicle traffic. Therefore, to provide a more realistic comparison of safety performance over the years, it is important to include both train and vehicle traffic when calculating incident rates at highway-rail grade crossings. The U.S. Department of Transportation's (USDOT) Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) tasked the USDOT Research and Innovative Technology Administration's John A. Volpe National Transportation Systems Center (Volpe Center) to review an exposure metric called traffic moment (TM), which is currently used by European nations, and to apply it to U.S. data.
Download or read book Railroad highway Grade Crossing Accidents Involving Trucks Transporting Bulk Hazardous Materials written by United States. National Transportation Safety Board and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A uniform effort, as an extension of Operation Lifesaver, which includes engineering, education, enforcement, and legislation, is needed to reduce these types of accidents. Additionally, changes in data systems are needed.
Download or read book Grade Crossing Accident Data Assessment written by Wasi A. Hanafi and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the adequacy of existing data as a basis for analysis of the causes of road/rail crossing accidents, and identifies the information gaps. Information comes from organisations representing owners/operators of crossings, regulators, and investigators, who were interviewed to assess their positions on grade crossing safety problems and to examine the data they collect. The report identifies deficiencies in the existing databases, as well as likely sources for more complete information. The appendix volume includes sample forms used for reporting road/rail crossing accidents in various jurisdictions, a summary data matrix of existing databases, and a report on accident prediction, severity prediction, and hazard index formulas that relate to road/rail crossings.
Download or read book Rail Highway Crossing Accident Causation Study Volume II Technical Report Final Report written by Karl Knoblauch and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Success Factors in the Reduction of Highway rail Grade Crossing Incidents from 1994 to 2003 written by and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Prevention of Rail highway Grade crossing Accidents Involving Railway Trains and Motor Vehicles written by United States. Interstate Commerce Commission and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Rail Highway Crossing Accident Causation Study written by and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Proceedings written by and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Railroad Right of way Incident Analysis Research written by Mina Chaudhary and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Locations of railroad right-of-way incidents in this research were identified as hotspots. These can be defined as highway-rail grade crossings or locations along the railroad right-of-way where collision or trespassing risk is unacceptably high and intervention is justified because the potential safety benefits exceed the cost of intervention. This project categorizes the hotspots as grade crossing and trespass incident hotspots. Mathematical models and theories are researched to see which ones may be used in identifying the hotspots. For the analysis of grade crossing incident hotspots, the Transport Canada model is modified to accommodate U.S. data and is applied to a sample of grade crossing incidents from 2003 to 2007 in the San Joaquin corridor in California. In analyzing trespass incident hotspots, the theory of cluster analysis, a type of spatial analysis, was researched. It appears that cluster analysis, used in conjunction with a geographic information system platform, would be a beneficial way of analyzing and predicting trespass hotspots.
Download or read book Factors Influencing Safety at Highway rail Grade Crossings written by David W. Schoppert and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive analysis and review was undertaken of available data and information applicable to the problem of improving safety at highway rail grade crossings. A probability model was developed for forecasting the probability of accident occurrence at crossings. The model allows the separate prediction of expected accidents which involve trains and accidents which do not involve trains but occur at the crossing.
Download or read book Methods for Evaluation of Rail highway Grade Crossing Improvements written by Gerald Ray Stewart and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Uses of Traffic Accident Records written by National Conference on Uniform Traffic Accident Statistics. Committee on Uses of Developed Information and published by . This book was released on 1947 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Railroad Grade Crossing Micro level Safety and Risk Analysis Phase 2 evaluation of Safety Risk at Highway Rail Grade Crossings written by Jacob Mathew (Writer on highway-railroad grade crossings) and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Railroad grade crossings are potential conflict points and pose a risk for all travelers. The degree of the risk depends on many factors such as volume train, volume of vehicles, speed of trains and vehicles, geometry of the crossing, etc. To assess the safety and risk of RR crossings, one may utilize aggregated data for the entire state or the country. Even though analysis of the aggregated data may be useful in establishing correlation among important variables, it might not be very useful for assessing the safety and risk for a given RR crossing. It is proposed to conduct a micro-level analysis to determine the risk of crashes at a given location (or a set of similar locations). The crash risk at a given crossing may depend on past crash history at that location, as well as the relation amount different elements that affect traffic safety at RR crossings. At the micro-level analysis one considers the uniqueness of each crossing and develops a risk factor for such crossings. Then, the safety and risk at system level is determined based on these individual safety and risk assessments. Phase one of this study is near completion and phase two will focus on safety and risk of accident at railroad crossing."--
Download or read book Railroad Right Of Way Incident Analysis Research written by U.s. Department of Transportation and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2013-12 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Locations of railroad right-of-way incidents in this research were identified as hotspots. These can be defined as highway-rail grade crossings or locations along the railroad right-of-way where collision or trespassing risk is unacceptably high and intervention is justified because the potential safety benefits exceed the cost of intervention. This project categorizes the hotspots as grade crossing and trespass incident hotspots. Mathematical models and theories are researched to see which ones may be used in identifying the hotspots. For the analysis of grade crossing incident hotspots, the Transport Canada model is modified toaccommodate U.S. data and is applied to a sample of grade crossing incidents from 2003 to 2007 in the San Joaquincorridor in California. In analyzing trespass incident hotspots, the theory of cluster analysis, a type of spatial analysis, was researched. It appears that cluster analysis, used in conjunction with a geographic information system platform, would be a beneficial way of analyzing and predicting trespass hotspots.
Download or read book Accidents at Grade Crossings and to Trespassers written by Alexander Gordon and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Assessment of Risks for High speed Rail Grade Crossings on the Empire Corridor written by M. Mironer and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Highway Rail Grade Crossing Identification and Prioritizing Model Development written by Maxim A. Dulebenets and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2014-01-14 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: HIGHWAY-RAIL GRADE CROSSING IDENTIFICATION AND PRIORITIZING MODEL DEVELOPMENT Highway-Rail Grade Crossing Identification and Prioritizing Model Development develops an optimization model and heuristic. This seminal work expertly allocates monetary resources between public highway-rail grade crossings in the State of Tennessee. Highway-Rail Grade Crossing Identification and Prioritizing Model Development applies particular countermeasures. These countermeasures aim to decrease the total number of severe to fatal road accidents with respect to budget available.
