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Author: United States. Office of Highway Safety Publisher: ISBN: Category : Highway-railroad grade crossings Languages : en Pages : 172
Book Description
The last report to Congress on rail-highway crossing safety was in 1971-72. Since then, several actions and changes have occurred. These are discussed in the Executive Summary which is included in this report. This discussion is followed by 8 chapters. The final chapter summarizes the findings of this study on each of nine identified issues, as well as other issues identified during the course of the study.
Author: United States. Office of Highway Safety Publisher: ISBN: Category : Highway-railroad grade crossings Languages : en Pages : 172
Book Description
The last report to Congress on rail-highway crossing safety was in 1971-72. Since then, several actions and changes have occurred. These are discussed in the Executive Summary which is included in this report. This discussion is followed by 8 chapters. The final chapter summarizes the findings of this study on each of nine identified issues, as well as other issues identified during the course of the study.
Author: Iowa. Department of Transportation. Office of Systems Planning Publisher: ISBN: Category : Highway-railroad grade crossings Languages : en Pages : 96
Book Description
The objective of the study is to assist in the development of a long-range plan to provide direction and guidance for the investment in and implementation of rail-highway crossing improvements on Iowa's main line rail system.
Author: Hoy A. Richards Publisher: Transportation Research Board ISBN: 9780309061063 Category : Technology & Engineering Languages : en Pages : 68
Book Description
This synthesis will be of interest to state and local highway personnel who are responsible for the design, construction, and maintenance of road surfaces and to railroad personnel with similar responsibilities associated with highway-rail grade crossings. It will also be of interest to manufacturers and suppliers of pavement and track materials for crossings. It presents information on the current practices related to highway-rail grade crossing surfaces, including the design and selection of crossing surface materials. This report of the Transportation Research Board describes the various types of highway- rail crossing surfaces, and the issues related to design, operation, and maintenance. Design elements include intersection geometry; drainage; special users, such as bicyclists; and descriptions of failures and their causes. Information is presented on crossing material selection factors, including life-cycle costs and on state practices in selection. Funding issues are also discussed.
Author: National Research Council (U.S.). Transportation Research Board Publisher: Transportation Research Board Commission ISBN: Category : Reference Languages : en Pages : 28
Book Description
This bibliography, an update of the 1976 Bibliography 57, contains 48 new entries chosen as making significant contributions to the state-of-the-art literature in rail-highway grade crossings. The majority of citations are from the 1976-1979 period.
Author: Publisher: ISBN: Category : Highway-railroad grade crossings Languages : en Pages : 4
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Incidents at highway-rail grade crossings in the United States declined 44.7 percent from 1994 to 2007. This decline was likely a result of various crossing safety improvement programs conducted during that period. The U.S. Department of Transportation's (USDOT) Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) tasked the John A. Volpe National Transportation Systems Center (Volpe Center) to determine the safety factors that were responsible for the reduction of highway-rail grade crossing incidents. The study was conducted in two parts. In the first part, an examination of the reduction of highway-rail grade crossing incidents during the 1994-2003 period was completed. In the second part of the study, an analysis of success factors for the 2003 through 2007 period was completed.
Author: Jennifer Jaye Zankowski Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 136
Book Description
For over a decade proposals for connecting the metropolitan areas of Austin and San Antonio, Texas via passenger rail have been studied. In the Texas Department of Transportation's 2010 Rail Plan several ideas, including high-speed rail, regional Amtrak service, and a new passenger rail service have been proposed as a means to provide an alternate mode of transportation along the I-35 corridor. Union Pacific Railroad currently owns and operations a rail line that connects the Austin and San Antonio metropolitan areas; each of the passenger rail projects proposes sharing this corridor with Union Pacific. A literature review reveals that a key factor in negotiating with a freight railroad for shared use of a corridor is safety. One element of the safety risk analysis is the evaluation of at-grade highway-railroad crossing. This study discusses the Austin-San Antonio corridor, its current mobility challenges and the proposed passenger rail projects. It then discusses rail safety as expressed in the literature and provides background about safety at highway-railroad crossings. Crossing inventory and accident data, as maintained by the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA), is then analyzed using regression modeling in an attempt to better understand the relationship between the physical and operational characteristics of highway-railroad crossings and accidents on corridors shared by freight and passenger rail. It analyzes a five-year accident history (2005 to 2009) from of a sample of shared use highway-rail crossings throughout the US. The findings are then used to analyze the at-grade highway-railroad crossings along the Austin-San Antonio corridor. And finally, the implications of the findings are discussed. The findings of this report recommend that characteristics of the built environment such as land use, number of traffic lanes, and function classification of the roadway should be considered when assessing accident risk at highway-railroad crossings. In addition, this analysis reveals the need for a way to better measure safety risks at private highway-railroad crossings.
Author: United States. Office of Highway Safety
Author: United States. Office of Highway Safety
Author: Anya A. Carroll
Author: Iowa. Department of Transportation. Office of Systems Planning
Author: Hoy A. Richards
Author: National Research Council (U.S.). Transportation Research Board
Author: Allyson J. Hartle
Author: Judith B. Gertler
Author: Anya A. Carroll
Author: 
Author: Jennifer Jaye Zankowski