FRA Issues Safety Advisory for Bridge Workers.   The Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) has issued a Safety Advisory to remind railroads, contractors and railroad bridge workers of safety practices intended to...

Researchers deployed grade crossing education and enforcement programs in two cities and assessed whether they had the same effect in different communities.

This study examined the decrease in highway-rail grade crossing incidents between 1994 and 2007 and identifies 5 success factors that accounted for 80% of this decrease.

Traffic movement (TM) is a measure of train and vehicle traffic used to calculate incident rates. This analysis used TM to examine grade crossing incidents from 1989-2008.