TY - JOUR
T1 - Planning and Design for Prevention of Incorrect Turns onto Highway-Rail Grade Crossings
AU - Lin, Pei-Sung
AU - Fabregas, Aldo
AU - Kourtellis, Achilleas
AU - Bryant, Edgar
AU - Lall, Sherrell
PY - 2014/1/1
Y1 - 2014/1/1
N2 - In recent years, a number of injuries and fatal collisions have occurred at certain highway-rail grade crossings located adjacent to highway intersections, driveways, or freeway on-ramps. Some guide signage, pavement markings, and other traffic control devices currently present at the crossings may have confused drivers and caused them to turn onto the railroad tracks rather than at the nearby intersections, driveways, or freeway on-ramps. Due to limited research in this new area of prevention of incorrect turns at highway-rail grade crossings, a research project was sponsored by the National Center for Transit Research and Florida Department of Transportation to seek cost-effective solutions. This paper first provides an intensive literature review to identify available sources of information and best practices throughout the world for innovative and cost-effective infrastructure treatments. It then presents analysis of the contributing causes of crashes that occurred in the past and offers a set of countermeasures for planning and design aimed at improving incorrect turns at highway-rail grade crossings.
AB - In recent years, a number of injuries and fatal collisions have occurred at certain highway-rail grade crossings located adjacent to highway intersections, driveways, or freeway on-ramps. Some guide signage, pavement markings, and other traffic control devices currently present at the crossings may have confused drivers and caused them to turn onto the railroad tracks rather than at the nearby intersections, driveways, or freeway on-ramps. Due to limited research in this new area of prevention of incorrect turns at highway-rail grade crossings, a research project was sponsored by the National Center for Transit Research and Florida Department of Transportation to seek cost-effective solutions. This paper first provides an intensive literature review to identify available sources of information and best practices throughout the world for innovative and cost-effective infrastructure treatments. It then presents analysis of the contributing causes of crashes that occurred in the past and offers a set of countermeasures for planning and design aimed at improving incorrect turns at highway-rail grade crossings.
KW - highway and road design
KW - traffic accidents
KW - rail transportation
KW - financial management
KW - infrastructure
KW - ramps (road)
KW - intersections
UR - https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/cutr_facpub/27
UR - https://doi.org/10.1061/9780784413364.044
U2 - 10.1061/9780784413364.044
DO - 10.1061/9780784413364.044
M3 - Article
JO - Challenges and Advances in Sustainable Transportation Systems: Proceedings of the 10th Asia Pacific Transportation Development Conference
JF - Challenges and Advances in Sustainable Transportation Systems: Proceedings of the 10th Asia Pacific Transportation Development Conference
ER -