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.
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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...
U.S. Department of Transportation Announces Availability of $291 Million for Rail Capital Projects
WASHINGTON - The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) today issued a Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) for the Federal-State Partnership for State of Good Repair Grant Program (Partnership Program). The NOFO includes $291.4 million in grant funding and is...
FRA Continues Commitment to Save Lives With Railroad Trespassing Suicide Prevention Grants
The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) today announced the availability of $293,000 in competitive grant funds for Railroad Trespassing Suicide Prevention Program projects.
The notice of funding opportunity (NOFO) solicits grant applications from...
HQ-2019-1365
On September 25, 2019, at approximately 2:59 p.m., CDT, a southbound CSX freight train M97225 (Train 1) derailed at CSX Milepost (MP) J22 on the CSX Nashville Division, Chattanooga Subdivision in Smyrna, Tennessee. Train 1 was making a shoving movement with 85 loaded autoracks at a recorded...