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Report to Congress: Private Highway-Rail Grade Crossings: Safety Data and Engineering Practices
This report responds to the Fixing America’s Surface Transportation Act (the Act), which directed the U.S. Secretary of Transportation to review private grade crossings, in consultation with railroad carriers. The Act directed the Secretary to determine whether data on private...Competitive Grants Application Process Flowchart
The Federal Railroad Administration has created a visual aide illustrating the Competitive Grants Application Process, which can be used as an alternative to the written instructions on the website.A Program Definition Study for Rail-Highway Grade Crossing Improvement
This study describes in general terms the present status of grade crossing inventories, improvement programs and other significant considerations. It identifies available information with respect to the cost of accidents and motor vehicle operations, as well as the preparation of estimates of...
Technological Innovation in Grade Crossing Protective Systems
The constraints on innovative grade crossing protective systems are delineated and guidelines for development indicated. Inventory data has been arranged to permit an estimate of the classes of systems needed, the allowable costs, and contribution of various types of crossings to accidents. Many...
Human Factors Countermeasures to Improve Highway-Railway Intersection Safety
A field demonstration study in support of the evaluation of alternative railway-highway grade crossing accident countermeasures was conducted. Guidelines were provided for the development of countermeasure concepts, the selection of candidate countermeasures, countermeasures evaluation methods,...
Grade Crossing Protection in High-Speed, High-Density, Passenger-Service Rail Corridors
This report is a preliminary examination of special aspects of grade crossing protection for operation of high-speed passenger trains in rail corridors for which complete grade separation is not possible. Overall system needs and constraints are indicated, and their implications examined....
Enhancement of Train Visibility
The report describes a study of the most effective and practical means of enhancing the conspicuity of the trailing end of trains, in order to reduce the possibility of train--train collisions. There are five elements: (a) Definition of a usable number of categories of target, background, and...
Guidelines for Enhancement of Visual Conspicuity of Trains at Grade Crossings
This report summarizes a comprehensive study of potential means of reducing the probability of train-motor vehicle collisions at railroad-highway grade crossings through enhancement of the visual conspicuity of locomotives. Passive techniques are reviewed, and requirements and constraints upon...
Field Evaluation of Locomotive Conspicuity Lights
Flashing xenon strobe lamps were installed on locomotives in revenue service as a means of alerting motorists to the hazards they are approaching at a rail-highway grade crossing. Effectiveness of these lights in attracting motorists’ attention was evaluated. The reactions of both motorists and...