Current issues in highway–rail grade crossing hazard-ranking and project development

Transportation Research Record

Volumn 2608, Issue 1, 2017, Pages 19-26

  Sperry, Benjamin R ^a   Naik, Bhaven ^a   Warner, Jeffery E ^b  

^a US Institute of Navigation   (United States)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HAZARDS; RAILROAD CROSSINGS;

'CURRENT; COMPREHENSIVE RESEARCH; GRADE CROSSING; HAZARD RANKING; PROJECT DEVELOPMENT; RAIL GRADES; RANKING MODEL; TRANSPORTATION: MODELS; U.S. DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION; US DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION;

ECONOMIC ANALYSIS;

EID: 85048874461     PISSN: 03611981     EISSN: 21694052     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3141/2608-03     Document Type: Article

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