Data analysis of grade crossing incidents : research results.

Details

• 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:
  • Railroad grade crossings
  • Railroad facilities
  • Railroad crashes
  • Ground transportation crashes
  • Railroad safety
  • Transportation safety
  • Prevention
  • Highway-railroad grade crossings--United States--Safety measures
  • Railroad accidents--United States--Prevention
• Publication/ Report Number:
  RR 11-27
• Resource Type:
  Booklet/Pamphlet
• Geographical Coverage:
  United States
• Edition:
  Research results.
• Corporate Publisher:
  United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Railroad Administration
• Abstract:
  Incidents and fatalities at highway-rail grade crossing in the United States have declined significantly over the past two decades despite a significant increase in both train and vehicle traffic. Therefore, to provide a more realistic comparison of safety performance over the years, it is important to include both train and vehicle traffic when calculating incident rates at highway-rail grade crossings. The U.S. Department of Transportation's (USDOT) Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) tasked the USDOT Research and Innovative Technology Administration’s John A. Volpe National Transportation Systems Center (Volpe Center) to review an exposure metric called traffic moment (TM), which is currently used by European nations, and to apply it to U.S. data.
• Format:
  PDF
• Download URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/9524/dot_9524_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 354.49 KB]
• Collection(s):
  Volpe Center ; Federal Railroad Administration
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:56c46109dc399eedffd82edfc17739b88ddeb5666ed8d0567c2bcc3648e899e6