Hazards Associated with HSR Operations Adjacent to Conventional Tracks – Enhanced Literature Review Part I: Summary Report

The Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) set out to develop a guidance document which provides information on the design considerations and potential risk mitigations for high-speed rail (HSR) systems adjacent to and sharing corridors with existing conventional railway operations. The objective of this project is to provide input to and support the development of the guidance document by conducting a comprehensive literature review of the 11 hazards associated with HSR operations adjacent to conventional tracks that were identified by FRA. This report is the first part of the three-part project that defines the scope of the literature review and summarizes the results from the literature review. Causal analysis was conducted for mainline passenger and freight train accidents to understand major factors leading to passenger and freight train accidents and identify accident causes that are more relevant to HSR systems adjacent to and sharing corridors with existing conventional railway operations.

• Record URL:
  https://www.fra.dot.gov/eLib/Details/L20476
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• Corporate Authors:

  University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

  Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
  205 North Mathews Avenue
  Urbana, IL  United States  61801-2352

  Federal Railroad Administration

  Office of Railroad Policy and Development, 1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE
  Washington, DC  United States  20590

  Federal Railroad Administration

  Office of Research, Development, and Technology
  Washington, DC  United States 
• Authors:
  • Saat, M R
  • Barkan, C P L
• Publication Date: 2019-8

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Digital/other
• Edition: Final Report; Technical Report
• Features: Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: 31p

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Crash causes; Freight trains; Hazards; High speed rail; Literature reviews; Passenger trains; Railroad crashes
• Uncontrolled Terms: Shared corridors
• Subject Areas: Railroads; Safety and Human Factors;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01714866
• Record Type: Publication
• Report/Paper Numbers: DOT/FRA/ORD-19/27
• Contract Numbers: DTFR53-12-D-00002 Task Order 2
• Files: TRIS, ATRI, USDOT
• Created Date: Aug 26 2019 3:43PM