COLLECTING STATEWIDE RAIL CROSSING INVENTORIES WITH A SMARTPHONE APP

摘要

1. FRA requires update of rail highway crossing data every three years. 2. FRA inventory form requires States to report a minimum of 95 data fields 3. MnDOT has 4,185* rail crossings to inventory 4. MnDOT supplements inventory with digital photos and 18 additional data fields 5. Paper-form field inventory is very time intensive and error-prone 6. Digital data collection pursued in 2017