Development and implementation of a trespass location severity analysis on a commuter rail right of way

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• Alternative Title:
  Proceedings of the 2013 Joint Rail Conference
• Creators:
  da Silva, Marco P.
• Corporate Creators:
  John A. Volpe National Transportation Systems Center (U.S.)
• Corporate Contributors:
  United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Railroad Administration. Office of Research and Development
• Subject/TRT Terms:
  • Trespassers
  • Railroad safety
  • Railroad commuter service
  • Prevention
  • Hazard analysis
  • Risk analysis
  • Best practices
  • Algorithms
  • Stakeholders Lessons learned
  • Hazard identification
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• Publication/ Report Number:
  JRC2013-2532
• Resource Type:
  Proceedings
• Geographical Coverage:
  Florida
• Corporate Publisher:
  American Society of Mechanical Engineers ; Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
• Abstract:
  The United States Department of Transportation’s ; (USDOT) Research and Innovative Technology ; Administration’s John A. Volpe National Transportation ; Systems Center (Volpe Center), under the direction of the ; USDOT Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) Office of ; Research and Development (R&D), is conducting a Trespass ; Prevention Research Study (TPRS) in the city of West Palm ; Beach, Florida. The main objective of this research is to ; demonstrate potential benefits, including documenting best ; practices and lessons learned, of implementation and ; evaluation of trespass prevention strategies on the rail network ; in West Palm Beach, Florida and all of its rights-of-way. ; This paper will detail the development and ; implementation of a risk based data analysis to determine the ; locations of highest trespass risk along the TriRail commuter ; rail corridor through the City of West Palm Beach, FL. This ; feeds into the overall study objective by providing a ; methodology for prioritizing safety improvement programs for ; high-risk trespass locations. ; The research team used a hazard analysis process based ; on the U.S. Department of Defense’s MIL-STD-882 and the ; APTA hazard identification/resolution processes. The ; adaptation of this methodology facilitated the systematic ; identification, analysis, and resolution/mitigation of hazards ; for this study. ; The research team also developed a risk-based ; prioritization algorithm for analyzing the trespass issue on the ; corridor. The hazard analysis and risk-based prioritization ; algorithm were used to identify several trespass high-risk ; areas along the TriRail corridor. The results of the analysis ; have been used by the study’s stakeholder group, composed of ; railroads, state and local agencies, and their safety partners, to ; develop a set of mitigation strategies for those higher-risk ; locations as identified though this analysis.
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  PDF
• Download URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/9844/dot_9844_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 425.36 KB]
• Collection(s):
  Volpe Center ; Federal Railroad Administration
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