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
  More +
• Publication/ Report Number:
  JRC2013-2532
• Resource Type:
  Proceedings
• Geographical Coverage:
  Florida
• Corporate Publisher:
  American Society of Mechanical Engineers ; Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
• Description:
  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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• Download URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/9844/dot_9844_DS1.pdf
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• Collection(s):
  Federal Railroad Administration ; Volpe Center
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