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On July 14-16, 2009 the Volpe Center hosted the United States Department of Transportation (US DOT) Federal Railroad Administration’s (FRA) Third Research Needs Workshop on Highway-Rail Grade Crossing Safety and Trespass Prevention (workshop). The primary purpose of this workshop was to bring...
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...
Researchers summarized the use of channelization devices (barriers that physically separate lanes) as a cost-effective way to reduce violations at grade crossings.
Under direction of the Federal Railroad Administration’s Office of Research and Development, the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Research and Innovative Technology Administration’s John A. Volpe National Transportation Systems Center conducted a technology assessment of low-cost active...
The U.S. Department of Transportation’s John A. Volpe National Transportation Systems Center, under the direction of the Federal Railroad Administration, conducted a 3-year demonstration of an automated prototype railroad infrastructure security system on a railroad bridge in the town of...
Researchers deployed grade crossing education and enforcement programs in two cities and assessed whether they had the same effect in different communities.
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.
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.
Researchers identified strategies to improve rail safety based on successful education and outreach programs in other transportation modes, countries, and industries.
Due to our recent website upgrade some of the links in legacy documents might point to the decommissioned site location...
The U.S. Department of Transportation’s (USDOT) Federal Railroad Administration tasked the USDOT Research and Innovative Technology Administration’s John A. Volpe National Transportation Systems Center to document the success of the safety improvements at private highway-rail grade crossings...