This report describes activities completed during the fist year of a two-year study focusing on improving safety at highway-railroad grade crossings. The activities completed during the first year included a review of published literature on driver behavior at highway-railroad grade crossings; an assessment of railroad operating practices at highway-railroad grade crossings, including audible warning devices and locomotive conspicuity measures, and requirements for their use; an assessment of basic train detection technologies used at active highway-railroad grade crossings; and a statewide crash study.
Enhanced Traffic Confrol Devices and Railroad Operations for Highway-Railroad Grade Crossing: First Year Activities
1995
124 pages
Report
No indication
English
Transportation Safety , Road Transportation , Railroad Transportation , Transportation , Transportation & Traffic Planning , Traffic control devices , Railroad grade crossing , Highway transportation , Accident factors , Railroad grade crossing accidents , Human factors , Driver attitudes , Environmental issues , Accident analysis , Literature review , Highway safety , Warning systems , Data analysis , Texas
Railroad-Highway Grade Crossing Handbook
NTIS | 1978
|Railroad-highway grade crossing protection
Engineering Index Backfile | 1956