FTA Standards Development Program: Mitigations for Trespasser and Suicide Fatalities and Injuries

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• Creators:
  Lin, Pei-Sung ; Kourtellis, Achilleas ; Islam, Mouyid ; Menon, Nikhil ; Godfrey, Jodi ; Keita, Yaye
• Corporate Creators:
  University of South Florida. Center for Urban Transportation Research
• Corporate Contributors:
  United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Transit Administration. Office of Research, Demonstration and Innovation
• Subject/TRT Terms:
  • Detection and identification systems
  • Warning systems
  • Trespassers
  • Suicide
  • Rail transit
  • Fatalities
  • Injuries
  • Countermeasures
  • Strategic planning
  • Technology
• Publication/ Report Number:
  FTA Report No. 0227
• DOI:
  https://doi.org/10.21949/1527640
• Resource Type:
  Tech Report
• Geographical Coverage:
  United States
• Edition:
  July 2019–December 2020
• Corporate Publisher:
  United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Transit Administration
• Abstract:
  This research focused on mitigation strategies and countermeasures that may be used by rail transit agencies (RTAs) to reduce trespasser and suicide fatalities and injuries, including RTA practices and practical and promising strategies and countermeasures. This report can serve as a toolbox for RTAs to provide mitigation strategies identified from a literature review and employed by RTAs, including 11 case studies; promising existing and emerging technology applications to detect and/or prevent rail transit trespassing and suicides; and key research findings for mitigating injuries and fatalities associated with trespassing and suicide events.
• Format:
  PDF
• Download URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/64111/dot_64111_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 7.67 MB]
• Collection(s):
  Federal Transit Administration
• Main Document Checksum:
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