Author: U.s. Department of Transportation
Publisher: CreateSpace
ISBN: 9781499123357
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 50
Book Description
This research, conducted from October 2008 to February 2010, assesses the potential safety benefits provided by the safety improvements at private highway-rail grade crossings in North Carolina along the Charlotte to Raleigh portion of the Southeast High-Speed Rail Corridor (SEHSR). The North Carolina Department of Transportation (NCDOT) proceeded with this set of safety improvements, commonly grouped under the program entitled Private Crossing Safety Initiative (PCSI), under Phase IV of its Sealed Corridor program. The progress is described in terms of safety benefits. Crash data through 2008 were examined to ensure any incidents that may have occurred at crossings improved through September 2008 would be included. This report also contains an analysis and evaluation of whether the resulting reduction in incidents is sustainable through 2010 when train speeds along the corridor could achieve 110 miles per hour (mph), although discussions with NCDOT rail staff indicate train speeds may only increase to 79 mph. Therefore, an evaluation of five different rail speed variables—No Build (110 mph in 2010), No Build (79 mph in 2010), Full Build (110 mph in 2010), Full Build (79 mph in 2010), and Full Build without any rail speed increase in 2010—were analyzed and compared.
North Carolina Sealed Corridor Phase IV Assessment- Private Crossings
Author: U.s. Department of Transportation
Publisher: CreateSpace
ISBN: 9781499123357
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 50
Book Description
This research, conducted from October 2008 to February 2010, assesses the potential safety benefits provided by the safety improvements at private highway-rail grade crossings in North Carolina along the Charlotte to Raleigh portion of the Southeast High-Speed Rail Corridor (SEHSR). The North Carolina Department of Transportation (NCDOT) proceeded with this set of safety improvements, commonly grouped under the program entitled Private Crossing Safety Initiative (PCSI), under Phase IV of its Sealed Corridor program. The progress is described in terms of safety benefits. Crash data through 2008 were examined to ensure any incidents that may have occurred at crossings improved through September 2008 would be included. This report also contains an analysis and evaluation of whether the resulting reduction in incidents is sustainable through 2010 when train speeds along the corridor could achieve 110 miles per hour (mph), although discussions with NCDOT rail staff indicate train speeds may only increase to 79 mph. Therefore, an evaluation of five different rail speed variables—No Build (110 mph in 2010), No Build (79 mph in 2010), Full Build (110 mph in 2010), Full Build (79 mph in 2010), and Full Build without any rail speed increase in 2010—were analyzed and compared.
Publisher: CreateSpace
ISBN: 9781499123357
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 50
Book Description
This research, conducted from October 2008 to February 2010, assesses the potential safety benefits provided by the safety improvements at private highway-rail grade crossings in North Carolina along the Charlotte to Raleigh portion of the Southeast High-Speed Rail Corridor (SEHSR). The North Carolina Department of Transportation (NCDOT) proceeded with this set of safety improvements, commonly grouped under the program entitled Private Crossing Safety Initiative (PCSI), under Phase IV of its Sealed Corridor program. The progress is described in terms of safety benefits. Crash data through 2008 were examined to ensure any incidents that may have occurred at crossings improved through September 2008 would be included. This report also contains an analysis and evaluation of whether the resulting reduction in incidents is sustainable through 2010 when train speeds along the corridor could achieve 110 miles per hour (mph), although discussions with NCDOT rail staff indicate train speeds may only increase to 79 mph. Therefore, an evaluation of five different rail speed variables—No Build (110 mph in 2010), No Build (79 mph in 2010), Full Build (110 mph in 2010), Full Build (79 mph in 2010), and Full Build without any rail speed increase in 2010—were analyzed and compared.
North Carolina "sealed corridor" phase I, II, and III assessment
Author: Patrick Bien-Aime
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Highway-railroad grade crossings
Languages : en
Pages : 53
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Highway-railroad grade crossings
Languages : en
Pages : 53
Book Description
North Carolina Sealed Corridor
Author: U.s. Department of Transportation
Publisher: CreateSpace
ISBN: 9781499359404
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 62
Book Description
The Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) tasked the John A. Volpe National Transportation Systems Center to document the further success of theNorth Carolina DOT“Sealed Corridor” project through Phases I, II, and III. The Sealed Corridor is the section of the designated Southeast High Speed Rail (SEHSR) Corridor that runs through North Carolina. The Sealed Corridor program aims at improving or consolidating every highway-rail grade crossing, both public and private, along the Charlotte to Raleigh rail route in North Carolina. The research on the Sealed Corridor assessed the progress made at the 189 crossings that have been treated with improved warning devices or closed between Charlotte and Raleigh, from March 1995 through September 2004. Two approaches were used to describe benefits in terms of lives saved: a fatal crash analysis to derive lives saved,and prediction of lives saved based on the reduction of risk at the treated crossings. Both methods estimated that more than19lives have been saved as a result of the 189 improvements implemented through December 2004. Analysis also shows that the resulting reduction in accidents, due to the crossing improvements, is sustainable through 2010, when anticipated exposure and train speeds along the corridor will be increased.
Publisher: CreateSpace
ISBN: 9781499359404
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 62
Book Description
The Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) tasked the John A. Volpe National Transportation Systems Center to document the further success of theNorth Carolina DOT“Sealed Corridor” project through Phases I, II, and III. The Sealed Corridor is the section of the designated Southeast High Speed Rail (SEHSR) Corridor that runs through North Carolina. The Sealed Corridor program aims at improving or consolidating every highway-rail grade crossing, both public and private, along the Charlotte to Raleigh rail route in North Carolina. The research on the Sealed Corridor assessed the progress made at the 189 crossings that have been treated with improved warning devices or closed between Charlotte and Raleigh, from March 1995 through September 2004. Two approaches were used to describe benefits in terms of lives saved: a fatal crash analysis to derive lives saved,and prediction of lives saved based on the reduction of risk at the treated crossings. Both methods estimated that more than19lives have been saved as a result of the 189 improvements implemented through December 2004. Analysis also shows that the resulting reduction in accidents, due to the crossing improvements, is sustainable through 2010, when anticipated exposure and train speeds along the corridor will be increased.
Back on Track
Author: Mark Aldrich
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 1421424150
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 303
Book Description
Demonstrates how railroad safety evolved from the intersection of market pressures, technology, and public sentiment.--Journal of Southern History
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 1421424150
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 303
Book Description
Demonstrates how railroad safety evolved from the intersection of market pressures, technology, and public sentiment.--Journal of Southern History
Five-year Strategic Plan for Railroad Research, Development, and Demonstrations
Author: United States. Federal Railroad Administration
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
Grade Crossing Safety
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. Subcommittee on Surface Transportation and Merchant Marine
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
Railroad Grade Crossing Safety Issues
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure. Subcommittee on Railroads
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
Railway Age
The Signalman's Journal
Applying Safety Treatments to Rail-highway At-grade Crossings
Author: Douglas L. Cooper
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Highway-railroad grade crossings
Languages : en
Pages : 72
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Highway-railroad grade crossings
Languages : en
Pages : 72
Book Description