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https://doi.org/10.3141/1692-11

http://scholar.google.com...eman&publication_year=1999

Speed data as a component of driver behavior were measured at two sites where four-quadrant gates are under consideration. Previous research work assumed a constant speed approach for vehicles approaching and crossing a highway-rail intersection with four-quadrant gates. Video data collection techniques were used to statistically test whether vehicle speeds were constant or reduced on approach. The findings were that drivers do reduce their speed on approach to highway-rail intersections, which requires adjusting four-quadrant-gate timing to avoid vehicle entrapment.

This paper appears in Transportation Research Record No. 1692, Traffic Signing, Visibility, and Rail-Highway Grade Crossings.

English

p. 94-105

1999

Transportation Research Record

0309071151

Figures (2) ; References (8) ; Tables (10)

Behavior; Data collection; Drivers; Gates; Railroad grade crossings; Speed; Video cameras

Four quadrant gates; Gate timing; Vehicle entrapment

Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; Railroads; I73: Traffic Control

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