Use of Traffic Channelization Devices at Highway-Rail Grade Crossings
Researchers summarized the use of channelization devices (barriers that physically separate lanes) as a cost-effective way to reduce violations at grade crossings.
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Low-Cost Warning Device Industry Assessment
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...
Railroad Infrastructure Trespass Detection Performance Guidelines
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...
Public Education and Enforcement Research Study---Macomb, IL, Analysis
Researchers deployed grade crossing education and enforcement programs in two cities and assessed whether they had the same effect in different communities.
Data Analysis of Grade Crossing Incidents
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.
Success Factors in the Reduction of Highway-Rail Grade Crossing Incidents
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.
Evaluation of Education and Outreach Programs
Researchers identified strategies to improve rail safety based on successful education and outreach programs in other transportation modes, countries, and industries.
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North Carolina “Sealed Corridor” Phase IV Assessment – Private Crossings
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...
2012 ROW Fatality & Trespass Prevention Workshop
This workshop allowed rail stakeholders to learn about and discuss advances, accomplishments, challenges and approaches for right-of-way fatality and trespass prevention.
Use of Traffic Channelization Devices at Highway-Rail Grade Crossings
Traffic channelization devices have found new application at highway-rail grade crossings with active warning devices. Numerous studies conducted at locations where they have been installed show positive changes in unsafe driver behavior as a result of the treatments. When meeting certain...