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Vehicle Proximity Alert System : Prototype 1

Document Series:
Technical Reports
Author:
  • Federal Railroad Administration
Office
RRD
Subject:
Grade Crossing TechnologyHighway-Rail Grade Crossing Warning Systems
Document
Vehicle_Proximity_Alert.pdf (691.35 KB)

As part of FRA Task Order 114, the Association of American Railroads (AAR) Transportation Technology Center (TTC), Pueblo, Colorado, completed testing of Vehicle Proximity Alert System (VP AS) system 1. VP AS systems are designed to give priority vehicle operators (emergency, police, school buses, hazmat) advanced warning of the approach and/or presence of a train. These are· stand alone systems that do not rely on the activation of conventional highway-rail grade crossing warning/protection devices.


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Last updated: Monday, May 1, 1995