Comprehensive Costs of Highway-Rail Grade Crossing Crashes
Comprehensive Costs of Highway-Rail Grade Crossing Crashes

Author: Daniel Brod

Publisher: Transportation Research Board

Published: 2013

Total Pages: 119

ISBN-13: 0309283485

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"TRB's National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) Report 755: Comprehensive Costs of Highway-Rail Grade Crossing Crashes describes a process for estimating the costs of highway-rail grade crossing crashes. A spreadsheet-based tool to facilitate use of the cost estimation process is available online." --Publisher description.

Highway-Rail Grade Crossing Identification and Prioritizing Model Development
Highway-Rail Grade Crossing Identification and Prioritizing Model Development

Author: Maxim A. Dulebenets

Publisher: Xlibris Corporation

Published: 2014-01-14

Total Pages: 74

ISBN-13: 1493149660

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HIGHWAY-RAIL GRADE CROSSING IDENTIFICATION AND PRIORITIZING MODEL DEVELOPMENT Highway-Rail Grade Crossing Identification and Prioritizing Model Development develops an optimization model and heuristic. This seminal work expertly allocates monetary resources between public highway-rail grade crossings in the State of Tennessee. Highway-Rail Grade Crossing Identification and Prioritizing Model Development applies particular countermeasures. These countermeasures aim to decrease the total number of severe to fatal road accidents with respect to budget available.

Success Factors in the Reduction of Highway-rail Grade Crossing Incidents from 1994 to 2003
Success Factors in the Reduction of Highway-rail Grade Crossing Incidents from 1994 to 2003

Author: U.s. Department of Transportation

Publisher: CreateSpace

Published: 2013-12

Total Pages: 130

ISBN-13: 9781494708115

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Between the years 1994 and 2003, incidents at highway-rail grade crossings declined by 41.2 percent. The reasons for this decline were unknown. The John A. Volpe National Transportation Systems Center was tasked by the Federal Railroad Administration to identify the salient success factors in highway-rail grade crossing incident reduction. The success factors were analyzed and investigated using various qualitative and quantitative methods. Ten factors were identified as the most influential safety factors. The ten factors are: Commercial Driver Safety, Locomotive Conspicuity, More Reliable Motor Vehicles, Crossing Closure and Grade Separation, Sight Lines Clearance, Warning Device Upgrades, the Grade Crossing Maintenance Rule, the Section 130 Program, Operation Lifesaver, and Railroad Mergers.