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Highway-Rail Intersection Crash Taxonomy for Connected Vehicle Safety Research - Ten Year Trend

Document Series:
Technical Reports
Author:
  • Federal Railroad Administration
Report Number
DOT/FRA/ORD-19/25
Office
RDI-23
Subject:
Grade Crossing Modeling and SimulationHighway-Rail Grade Crossings
Keywords:
Highway-rail intersection, HRI, highway-rail grade crossing, grade crossing, taxonomy, connected vehicle, vehicle-to-infrastructure, vehicle-to-vehicle
Document
Updated Crash Taxonomy_rev.pdf (1.05 MB)

The Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) accident data from the 2008–2017 study period showed that annual combined highway-rail intersection (HRI) and rail infrastructure accident costs were between $20 million and $40 million dollars. An alternative method developed by the National Highway Cooperative Research Program (NCHRP) provides for the economic losses associated with medical and legal costs, lost productivity, and travel delay. The results from using this alternative method showed that these costs are between $1.6 and $1.9 billion annually.

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Last updated: Monday, July 22, 2019