Railroad Crossing Corridor Improvements: A Model Program Based on Field Reviews in Six States

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• Creators:
  Powers, Richard D.
• Corporate Creators:
  United States. Federal Highway Administration. Office of Highway Operations
• Corporate Contributors:
  United States. Federal Highway Administration. Demonstration Projects Division
• Subject/TRT Terms:
  Demonstration Projects Highway Corridors Railroad Grade Crossings Traffic Safety
• Publication/ Report Number:
  FHWA-DP-70-1
• Resource Type:
  Tech Report
• Right Statement:
  Public Domain
• Geographical Coverage:
  United States
• Edition:
  Final Report
• Corporate Publisher:
  United States. Federal Highway Administration. Office of Highway Operations
• Abstract:
  Since 1973, a special category of Federal-aid highway safety funds (Section 203) has been available for safety improvements at railroad-highway grade crossings. These funds are apportioned to each State highway agency annually and are used to pay 90 percent of the cost of improvements at selected crossings. Over the last 13 years, each State has been able to identify and improve many of its most hazardous crossings, most often by installing train-activated warning devices. There is some concern, however, that too little attention is being paid to the less expensive safety improvements that are needed at a far greater number of crossings. Demonstration Project No. 70, Railroad Crossing Corridor Improvements, was developed to encourage State highway agencies to expand their current efforts to encompass significantly more crossings each year by including low-cost improvements at the types of crossings that are not presently being addressed. This report summarizes corridor reviews that were held in six States (Iowa, Florida, Alaska, West Virginia, Louisiana, and California) in late 1985 and early 1986. The final chapter presents a model program which combines the benefits of current individual high-risk crossing programs with those of a corridor approach in which a series of adjacent crossings are reviewed by a diagnostic team.
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• Collection(s):
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