Reducing boarding and alighting accident rates on mixed high and low platform railroad lines through car and station design

Journal of Transportation Engineering

Volumn 131, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 382-391

  Morlok, Edward K ^a   Nitzberg, Bradley F ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Accident prevention; Public tranportation; Rail transportation; Railroad cars; Railroad stations; Risk management; Transportation safety

Indexed keywords

RAILROAD CARS; RAILROAD TRAFFIC CONTROL; RAILROAD TRANSPORTATION; RAILROADS;

ACCIDENT RATES; INJURY RATES; PLATFORMS; RAILROAD COMMUTER SERVICES;

RAILROAD ACCIDENTS;

ACCIDENT; DISABILITY; RAILWAY TRANSPORT; TRANSPORTATION PLANNING; TRANSPORTATION SAFETY;

NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

EID: 18144419299     PISSN: 0733947X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)0733-947X(2005)131:5(382)     Document Type: Article

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