Author: Jonathan Alan BeanPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
Predicting Violations at Gated Active Highway-railroad Grade Crossings
Author: Jonathan Alan BeanTraffic Violations at Gated Highway-railroad Grade Crossings
Author: Kay FitzpatrickPublisher:
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Category : Highway-railroad grade crossings
Languages : en
Pages : 108
Book Description
Implementation Action Items for Research Study Number 7-2987: Evaluation of Automated Highway-railroad Grade Crossing Enforcement Systems
Author: Kay FitzpatrickPublisher:
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Category : Detectors
Languages : en
Pages : 18
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Warning Time Requirements at Railroad-highway Grade Crossings with Active Traffic Control
Author: Publisher:
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Category : Highway-railroad grade crossings
Languages : en
Pages : 99
Book Description
Research was conducted to assess the effects of warning time on driver behavior and safety at rail-highway grade crossings with active traffic control. Warning time is defined as the time between traffic control device activation and train arrival. As part of the research, detailed driver response data from two crossings with flashing light signals and one with gates and flashing light signals were analyzed. In addition, a laboratory assessment of drivers' warning time expectancies and tolerance levels at active crossings was conducted, and relevant warning time practices in six foreign countries were surveyed. The results of the studies and survey were used to develop suggested guidelines for minimum, maximum, and desirable warning times at grade crossings with active traffic control. A computer simulation model was also developed to predict the effects of excessive warning times on crossing violations and motorist delay.
Driver Compliance and Noncompliance at Actively Protected Highway-railroad Grade Crossings
Author: Monica Claudia GilHighway-Rail Grade Crossing Identification and Prioritizing Model Development
Author: Maxim A. DulebenetsPublisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1493149660
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 74
Book Description
HIGHWAY-RAIL GRADE CROSSING IDENTIFICATION AND PRIORITIZING MODEL DEVELOPMENT Highway-Rail Grade Crossing Identification and Prioritizing Model Development develops an optimization model and heuristic. This seminal work expertly allocates monetary resources between public highway-rail grade crossings in the State of Tennessee. Highway-Rail Grade Crossing Identification and Prioritizing Model Development applies particular countermeasures. These countermeasures aim to decrease the total number of severe to fatal road accidents with respect to budget available.
Factors Influencing Safety at Highway-rail Grade Crossings
Author: David W. SchoppertPublisher:
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Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
A comprehensive analysis and review was undertaken of available data and information applicable to the problem of improving safety at highway rail grade crossings. A probability model was developed for forecasting the probability of accident occurrence at crossings. The model allows the separate prediction of expected accidents which involve trains and accidents which do not involve trains but occur at the crossing.
Public Education and Enforcement Research Study
Author: Suzanne SposatoPublisher:
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Category : Highway-railroad grade crossings
Languages : en
Pages : 126
Book Description
The Public Education and Enforcement Research Study (PEERS) was a collaborative effort between the Federal Railroad Administration, the Illinois Commerce Commission, and local communities in the State of Illinois. The purpose of the project was to promote safety at highway-rail intersections by reducing incidents, injuries, and fatalities through new technologies and methodologies. The role of the John A. Volpe National Transportation Systems Center was to monitor and evaluate highway-rail intersections in Illinois communities using video data collection while the communities conducted education and enforcement campaigns. The data collection and analysis efforts focused on three highway-rail intersections in Arlington Heights, IL. The effectiveness of the programs was determined by counting the number of motorists and pedestrians that violated the crossing warning devices during three project phases. These violations were divided into three types based on highway-user assumed risk. The crossings in Arlington Heights saw an overall reduction in violations from the pre-test to the post-test of 30.7 percent. The largest reduction, 71.4 percent, occurred in the most risky type of violation, type III. Pedestrians most often committed these types of violations. At the crossing with an adjacent commuter rail station, a reduction of 76.3 percent occurred in the most risky pedestrian violations. Overall, highway-user behavior changed for the safer during the study, and pedestrians, especially commuters, were the most affected by the PEERS programs.
Rail-highway Crossing Safety
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Category : Railroad accidents
Languages : en
Pages : 64
Book Description
This Action Plan presents a multi-faceted, multi-modal approach for improving safety at our nation's highway-rail crossings and for the prevention of trespassing on the rights-of-way of our nation's railroads. It is multi-faceted in that it presents enforcement, engineering, education, research, promotional and legislative initiatives addressing crossings of both light and conventional rail rights-of-way by public and private streets and highways. The objectives were to reduce the number of highway-rail crossing accidents and casualties while not impeding, but facilitating, the contribution potential of the highway and rail infrastructure on the nation's economy.
Implementation Report of the USDOT Grade Crossing Safety Task Force
Author: United States. Dept. of Transportation. Grade Crossing Safety Task ForcePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Highway-railroad grade crossings
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description