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National Railroad-Highway Crossing Inventory : Update Manual
The purpose of this manual is to establish a set of procedures that will provide an- up.to-date and accurate database for: 1. A National Railroad-Highway Crossing Information enter (the Center) data file to be maintained by the Federal Railroad Administration. 2. Data files maintained by each...Railroad-Highway Safety Part I: A Comprehensive Statement of the Problem
This report represents Part I of the combined study effort of the Federal Administration and Federal Highway Administration and was submitted to the Congress in October 1971 in response to the Railroad Safety Act of 1970. It identifies the extent and nature of the safety problem associated with...Railroad-Highway Safety Part II: Recommendations for Resolving the Problem
Part I of this report described the extent and nature of the safety problem associated with railroad-highway grade crossings nationwide. Part II contains a further analysis of the matters covered in Part I and makes recommendations for improving safety at both public and private crossings of...Demonstration of Commercial-Off-The-Shelf Change Detection on Railway Images
This study, conducted jointly by ENSCO, Inc. and Harris Corporation, assessed the potential benefits of applying commercially available change detection software to railway machine vision images. Change detection involves registering “Before” and “After” images on a pixel-by-pixel basis to...