Is it safe to cross? Identification of trains and their approach speed at level crossings

Safety Science

Volumn 103, Issue , 2018, Pages 33-42

  Larue, Grégoire S ^a,b   Filtness, Ashleigh J ^a,c   Wood, Joanne M ^a   Demmel, Sébastien ^a   Watling, Christopher N ^a,d   Naweed, Anjum ^b,e   Rakotonirainy, Andry ^a  

^a QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

^b Australasian Centre for Rail Innovation   (Australia)

^c LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^d STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^e CENTRAL QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Gap acceptance; Motion perception; Passive crossing; Rail level crossing; Speed estimates; Speed perception

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; DRIVER TRAINING; MOTOR TRANSPORTATION; RAILROAD CARS; RAILROAD CROSSINGS; RAILROAD TRANSPORTATION; RAILROADS; ROADS AND STREETS;

APPROACH SPEED; FLASHING LIGHTS; GAP ACCEPTANCE; HIGH SPEED TRAIN (HST); LEVEL CROSSING; MOTION PERCEPTION; PASSIVE LEVEL CROSSINGS; SAFE CROSSINGS;

SPEED;

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; DECISION MAKING; DEMOGRAPHY; DRIVER; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LIGHT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; RAILWAY; TRAFFIC SAFETY; VELOCITY; VISUAL ACUITY;

EID: 85034648152     PISSN: 09257535     EISSN: 18791042     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ssci.2017.11.009     Document Type: Article

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