Applying Safety Treatments to Rail-Highway At-Grade Crossings. Final Report July 21, 2009-February 29, 2012.

摘要

The best solution to rail crossing crashes is to remove the need for the driver to engage in a potentially faulty decision-making process by making it impossible, or at least very difficult, for the driver to bypass lowered gates. Two methods, median separators and long-arm gates, have been deployed in many locations and shown to prevent deaths and injuries while remaining economically feasible. Any comprehensive safety program must begin by first identifying crossings where the risk of collision is unacceptably high, and where safety countermeasures are most warranted. Since this process is highly dependent on the accuracy of our states inventory database, bringing it up to date and putting it into a readily accessible format should be the top priority for all involved in California rail.