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.
Download or read book Safety of Highway railroad Grade Crossings Research Needs Workshop Volume II Appendices written by Anya A. Carroll and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Union Pacific Railroad Crossing Study written by Iowa. Department of Transportation. Office of Systems Planning and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The objective of the study is to assist in the development of a long-range plan to provide direction and guidance for the investment in and implementation of rail-highway crossing improvements on Iowa's main line rail system.
Download or read book Highway rail Grade Crossing Surfaces written by Hoy A. Richards and published by Transportation Research Board. This book was released on 1998 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This synthesis will be of interest to state and local highway personnel who are responsible for the design, construction, and maintenance of road surfaces and to railroad personnel with similar responsibilities associated with highway-rail grade crossings. It will also be of interest to manufacturers and suppliers of pavement and track materials for crossings. It presents information on the current practices related to highway-rail grade crossing surfaces, including the design and selection of crossing surface materials. This report of the Transportation Research Board describes the various types of highway- rail crossing surfaces, and the issues related to design, operation, and maintenance. Design elements include intersection geometry; drainage; special users, such as bicyclists; and descriptions of failures and their causes. Information is presented on crossing material selection factors, including life-cycle costs and on state practices in selection. Funding issues are also discussed.
Download or read book Railroad highway Grade Crossings written by National Research Council (U.S.). Transportation Research Board and published by Transportation Research Board Commission. This book was released on 1980 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This bibliography, an update of the 1976 Bibliography 57, contains 48 new entries chosen as making significant contributions to the state-of-the-art literature in rail-highway grade crossings. The majority of citations are from the 1976-1979 period.
Download or read book Minnesota Rail highway Grade Crossing Safety Improvement Study written by Allyson J. Hartle and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Study of State Programs for Rail highway Grade Crossing Improvements Final Report written by Judith B. Gertler and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Safety of Highway railroad Grade Crossings Research Needs Workshop Volume I written by Anya A. Carroll and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Success Factors in the Reduction of Highway rail Grade Crossing written by and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 4 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Incidents at highway-rail grade crossings in the United States declined 44.7 percent from 1994 to 2007. This decline was likely a result of various crossing safety improvement programs conducted during that period. The U.S. Department of Transportation's (USDOT) Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) tasked the John A. Volpe National Transportation Systems Center (Volpe Center) to determine the safety factors that were responsible for the reduction of highway-rail grade crossing incidents. The study was conducted in two parts. In the first part, an examination of the reduction of highway-rail grade crossing incidents during the 1994-2003 period was completed. In the second part of the study, an analysis of success factors for the 2003 through 2007 period was completed.
Download or read book Report No FHWA RD written by United States. Federal Highway Administration. Offices of Research and Development and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Safety at Highway railroad Crossings written by Jennifer Jaye Zankowski and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For over a decade proposals for connecting the metropolitan areas of Austin and San Antonio, Texas via passenger rail have been studied. In the Texas Department of Transportation's 2010 Rail Plan several ideas, including high-speed rail, regional Amtrak service, and a new passenger rail service have been proposed as a means to provide an alternate mode of transportation along the I-35 corridor. Union Pacific Railroad currently owns and operations a rail line that connects the Austin and San Antonio metropolitan areas; each of the passenger rail projects proposes sharing this corridor with Union Pacific. A literature review reveals that a key factor in negotiating with a freight railroad for shared use of a corridor is safety. One element of the safety risk analysis is the evaluation of at-grade highway-railroad crossing. This study discusses the Austin-San Antonio corridor, its current mobility challenges and the proposed passenger rail projects. It then discusses rail safety as expressed in the literature and provides background about safety at highway-railroad crossings. Crossing inventory and accident data, as maintained by the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA), is then analyzed using regression modeling in an attempt to better understand the relationship between the physical and operational characteristics of highway-railroad crossings and accidents on corridors shared by freight and passenger rail. It analyzes a five-year accident history (2005 to 2009) from of a sample of shared use highway-rail crossings throughout the US. The findings are then used to analyze the at-grade highway-railroad crossings along the Austin-San Antonio corridor. And finally, the implications of the findings are discussed. The findings of this report recommend that characteristics of the built environment such as land use, number of traffic lanes, and function classification of the roadway should be considered when assessing accident risk at highway-railroad crossings. In addition, this analysis reveals the need for a way to better measure safety risks at private highway-railroad crossings.
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.
Download or read book Manual of Traffic Engineering Studies written by Institute of Transportation Engineers and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Private Highway Rail Grade Crossing Safety Research and Inquiry written by U.s. Department of Transportation and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2013-12 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report provides a summary of the private highway-rail grade crossing safety inquiry conducted by the United States Department of Transportation Federal Railroad Administration and the Volpe Center. The safety inquiry consisted of a series of public meetings to solicit oral commentary on the safety of the nation's private highway-rail grade crossings, a docket for electronic comment submission, a panel discussion at the Transportation Research Board's annual meeting, and other activities as described in the table of contents.
Download or read book NURail Research Project written by and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Highway-railroad grade crossings are an integral part of the transportation system, allowing the two modes to operate in the same areas. Performance of the surface material at grade crossings has been an ongoing issue. This study reviewed the literature available on grade crossing surface materials and the crossing records available from MDOT in an attempt to determine which surface materials perform best for given traffic levels and site conditions. The study team found that the data currently available was not adequate to perform credible analysis of the situation, and recommended additions to the grade crossing data collected by MDOT, and a reporting method for that data. The team also made recommendations on a method to improve the rating system used by MDOT inspectors for crossing surface condition.
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 Evaluation of Selected Warning Signs at Skewed Railroad highway Crossings written by Todd Collier and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A 1984 study by the Research Council recommended that advance warning signs be placed in advance of skewed railroad-highway grade crossings. Several signs were suggested for use, and the study reported here was undertaken to determine the effectiveness of two of these signs. The study focused upon how well cyclists observed and understood the signs. Questionnaires were distributed to motorcylists in the Harrisonburg area, and interviews were conducted with bicyclists encountered on the campus of James Madison University. Both of the suggested signs were found to be effective, but one was superior and its use is recommended.
