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Rail-Highway Crossings - FHWA Section 130 Program: Research

Articles/Papers

Estimating countermeasure effects for reducing collisions at highway–railway grade crossings (2007)
Bayesian methodology incorporating expert judgment for ranking countermeasure effectiveness under uncertainty: Example applied to at grade railroad crossings in Korea (2006)
Comparison Models Evaluating Countermeasures at Highway-Railway Grade Crossings (2013)
Can be downloaded from ODOT computers
Effectiveness of traffic light vs. boom barrier controls at road–rail level crossings: A simulator study (2012)
Comparison of Self-Organizing Maps, Mixture, K-means and Hybrid Approaches to Risk Classication of Passive Railway Crossings (2008)
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Evaluating Safety at Railway Level Crossings with Microsimulation Modeling (2012)
Can be downloaded from ODOT computers
Applying analytic hierarchy process to assess traffic safety risk of railway infrastructure (2013)
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Success Factors in the Reduction of Highway-Rail Grade Crossing Incidents (2009)
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UTC/ Research Organizations

Driver Behavior

The FHWA section 130 program page features a literature review of driver behavior from 1990-2006; links for other papers range from 2007 - current.