RAIL-HIGHWAY CROSSING ACCIDENT/INCIDENT AND INVENTORY BULLETIN NUMBER 5, CALENDAR YEAR 1982

The fifth annual report, issued by the Federal Railroad Administration's (FRA) Office of Safety, combines rail-highway crossing accident/incident statistics with the National Rail-Highway Crossing Inventory. Accident/Incident data have been obtained from the FRA's Railroad Accident/Incident Reporting Systems (RAIRS). The RAIRS consists of the accident/incident reports filed by all railroads with the Office of Safety. The National Rail-Highway Crossing Inventory contains information about all rail-highway crossings in the United States. Section 1 of the report presents historical data on rail-highway crossing accidents/incidents for 1977 through 1982. Section 2 contains accident/incident statistics for 1982. These data were obtained from the rail-highway crossing accident/incident file and the railroad casualty file. Section 3 combines information from the rail-highway crossing accident/incident file with data in the National Rail-Highway Crossing Inventory and shows relationships between certain crossing characteristics and accident frequencies. Section 4 presents physical and operational statistics for all U.S. public, at-grade rail-highway crossings, as described by the National Inventory of June 10, 1982. The report contains data from public and private crossings.

• Corporate Authors:

  Federal Railroad Administration

  1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE
  Washington, DC  United States  20590
• Publication Date: 1983-6

Language

• English

Media Info

• Features: Appendices; Figures; Tables;
• Pagination: 108 p.
• Serial:
  • Issue Number: 5

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: At grade intersections; Crash rates; Highways; Railroad crashes; Railroad grade crossings; Statistics
• Identifier Terms: Railroad Grade Crossing Characteristics
• Uncontrolled Terms: Incidents
• Subject Areas: Data and Information Technology; Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; Railroads; I73: Traffic Control;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00762418
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS, USDOT
• Created Date: Apr 1 1999 12:00AM