Under direction of the Federal Railroad Administration’s Office of Research and Development, the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Research and Innovative Technology Administration’s John A. Volpe National Transportation Systems Center conducted a technology assessment of low-cost active warning devices for application at passive highway-rail grade crossings. The objective of this research was to present an objective assessment of the available low-cost warning device technologies and recommend a migration path that would facilitate implementation in the United States.
John A. Volpe National Transportation Systems Center (U.S.)
2011-12-01
Abstract:
Virtually all of the grade crossing train detection and warning systems in the United States use a variant of the track circuit technology developed o...
Traffic channelization devices have found new application at highway-rail grade crossings with active warning devices. Numerous studies conducted at l...
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