Railroads, Volume 2
This issue contains fifteen papers concerned with railroads. Specific topics addressed in this issue include the following: railway human factors and operational issues; future railroad operations and the role of automation; highway–rail grade crossing hazard-ranking and project development; and crash frequency, crash injury severity and visualization of accidents at highway–railway crossings. Other topics addressed in this issue include: North American high-speed passenger rail ridership forecasting; benefit–cost analysis of an intercity passenger rail service; reliability and cost in passenger rail system design; train data collection and arrival time prediction system for highway–rail grade crossings; the railway engineering education symposium; short-haul and short-line railway intermodal service; railway capacity allocation; macrolevel classification yard capacity modeling; and risk comparison of transporting hazardous materials in unit trains versus mixed trains.
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- Publication Date: 2017
Language
- English
Media Info
- Media Type: Digital/other
- Features: Figures; References; Tables;
- Pagination: 150p
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Serial:
- Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board
- Issue Number: 2608
- Publisher: Transportation Research Board
- ISSN: 0361-1981
Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: Automation; Design; Human factors; Operations; Railroad crashes; Railroad grade crossings; Railroad safety; Railroad transportation; Railroads
- Subject Areas: Operations and Traffic Management; Planning and Forecasting; Railroads; Safety and Human Factors;
Filing Info
- Accession Number: 01628040
- Record Type: Publication
- ISBN: 9780309442084
- Files: TRIS, TRB, ATRI
- Created Date: Mar 1 2017 1:49PM