01495042

Monograph

http://www.trb.org/Main/Blurbs/169061.aspx

http://www.trb.org/Publications/Blurbs/169061.aspx

This report presents a process for estimating the costs of highway-rail grade crossing crashes. These costs may include property damage incurred by freight shippers as well as the parties to the crash, delivery delay and lost time for traffic that is diverted by the crash, cost of public-service agencies responding to the crash and its aftermath, and more. Departments of transportation and other public agencies use such estimates in making decisions about investments to install safety devices or reconstruction to provide grade separation of the road and rail line. The report will be helpful to officials of such agencies who must identify and assess the merits of investments proposed to enhance safety at grade crossings. A spreadsheet tool to facilitate use of this cost estimation process was also developed and is available on the Transportation Research Board's website.

Project 08-85

English

117p

2013

NCHRP Report

9780309283489

Print

Appendices; Figures; References; Tables

Cost estimating; Costs; Grade crossing protection systems; Railroad crashes; Railroad grade crossings; Traffic crashes

Economics; Finance; Highways; Railroads; Safety and Human Factors; I10: Economics and Administration; I82: Accidents and Transport Infrastructure

TRIS, TRB, ATRI

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