Railroad right-of-way incident analysis research.

Details

• Alternative Title:
  Railroad right-of-way analysis research : safety of highway railroad grade crossings
• Creators:
  Chaudhary, Mina ; Hellman, Adrian ; Ngamdung, Tashi
• Corporate Creators:
  John A. Volpe National Transportation Systems Center (U.S.)
• Corporate Contributors:
  United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Railroad Administration. Office of Railroad Policy and Development
• Subject/TRT Terms:
  • Railroads
  • Right of way (Traffic)
  • Railroad grade crossings
  • Trespassers
  • Mathematical prediction
  • Crash risk forecasting
  • Crash severity
  • Cluster analysis Hotspots
  • Grade crossing
  • Trepass
  More +
• Publication/ Report Number:
  DOT-VNTSC-FRA-09-11;DOT/FRA/ORD-11/09
• Resource Type:
  Tech Report
• Geographical Coverage:
  United States
• Corporate Publisher:
  United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Railroad Administration
• Abstract:
  Locations of railroad right-of-way incidents in this research were identified as hotspots. These can be defined as highway-rail grade crossings or locations along the railroad right-of-way where collision or trespassing risk is unacceptably high and intervention is justified because the potential safety benefits exceed the cost of intervention. This project categorizes the hotspots as grade crossing and trespass incident hotspots. Mathematical models and theories are researched to see which ones may be used in identifying the hotspots. For the analysis of grade crossing incident hotspots, the Transport Canada model is modified to accommodate U.S. data and is applied to a sample of grade crossing incidents from 2003 to 2007 in the San Joaquin corridor in California. In analyzing trespass incident hotspots, the theory of cluster analysis, a type of spatial analysis, was researched. It appears that cluster analysis, used in conjunction with a geographic information system platform, would be a beneficial way of analyzing and predicting trespass hotspots.
• Format:
  PDF
• Funding:
  RR97-EG136;RR97A1-EG227;RR97A1-FG227
• Download URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/9144/dot_9144_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 881.94 KB]
• Collection(s):
  Federal Railroad Administration ; Volpe Center
• Main Document Checksum:
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