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Data Analysis of Grade Crossing Incidents

Document Series:
Research Results
Author:
  • Leonard W. Allen III
Report Number
RR11-27
Office
RDI-23
Subject:
Grade Crossing Modeling and SimulationHighway-Rail Grade Crossings
Keywords:
Grade crossing, traffic moment, exposure, incident rate, safety, safety statistics
Document
RR_Data_Analysis_of_Grade_Crossing_Incidents_final.pdf (350.49 KB)

Traffic movement (TM) is a measure of train and vehicle traffic used to calculate incident rates. This analysis used TM to examine grade crossing incidents from 1989-2008. 


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Last updated: Thursday, December 1, 2011