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Railroad right-of-way incident analysis research / [Mina Chaudhary, Adrian Hellman, and Tashi Ngamdung].
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- Government document
- Author/Creator:
- Chaudhary, Mina., Author.
- Hellman, Adrian D., Author.
- Ngamdung, Tashi., Author.
- Series:
- Safety of highway-railroad grade crossings
- Safety of highway railroad grade crossings
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Highway-railroad grade crossings--Accidents--United States.
- Highway-railroad grade crossings.
- Highway-railroad grade crossings--Accidents--California--San Joaquin Valley.
- Highway-railroad grade crossings--Accidents--Mathematical models.
- Highway-railroad grade crossings--Accidents.
- California--San Joaquin Valley.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (vi, 38 pages) : color illustrations, color maps.
- Place of Publication:
- Washington, DC : U.S. Dept. of Transportation, Federal Railroad Administration, Office of Railroad Policy and Development, [2011]
- Summary:
- Locations of railroad right-of-way incidents in this research were identified as hotspots. These can be defined as highway-rail grade crossings or locations along the railroad right-of-way where collision or trespassing risk is unacceptably high and intervention is justified because the potential safety benefits exceed the cost of intervention. This project categorizes the hotspots as grade crossing and trespass incident hotspots. Mathematical models and theories are researched to see which ones may be used in identifying the hotspots. For the analysis of grade crossing incident hotspots, the Transport Canada model is modified to accommodate U.S. data and is applied to a sample of grade crossing incidents from 2003 to 2007 in the San Joaquin corridor in California. In analyzing trespass incident hotspots, the theory of cluster analysis, a type of spatial analysis, was researched. It appears that cluster analysis, used in conjunction with a geographic information system platform, would be a beneficial way of analyzing and predicting trespass hotspots.
- Notes:
- Title from title screen (viewed on June 13, 2012).
- "Sponsoring/Monitoring agency report number: DOT/FRA/ORD-11/09"--Report documentation page.
- "Performing organization report number: DOT-VNTSC-FRA-09-11"--Report documentation page.
- "April 2011."
- Includes bibliographical references (page 29).
- "DOT-VNTSC-FRA-09-11"--Report documentation page.
- "Performing organization, U.S. Department of Transportation, Research and Innovative Technology Administration, John A. Volpe National Transportation Systems Center"--Report documentation page.
- OCLC:
- 795369780
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