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Light rail service : pedestrian and vehicular safety.
- Title
- Light rail service : pedestrian and vehicular safety.
- Publication
- Washington, D.C. : Transportation Research Board, National Research Council, 2001.
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- Description
- 141 pages : illustrations, map, plans; 28 cm.
- Summary
- This report provides documentation and presents the results of a study to improve the safety of light rail transit (LRT) in semiexclusive rights-of-way where light rail vehicles operate at speeds greater than 35 mph through crossings with streets and pedestrians pathways. This report also presents the results of field tests conducted to improve the safety of higher speed LRT systems through grade crossing design.
- Series Statement
- TCRP report ; no. 69
- Uniform Title
- Report (Transit Cooperative Research Program) ; no. 69.
- Alternative Title
- Pedestrian and vehicular safety
- Subject
- Street-railroads > United States > Safety measures
- Local transit > United States > Safety measures
- Transportation > Research > United States
- Local transit > Safety measures
- Street-railroads > Safety measures
- Transportation > Research
- Light rail transit
- Light rail transit grade crossings
- Transit safety
- United States
- Note
- "Sponsored by the Federal Transit Administration."
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Contents
- Summary -- Introduction and research approach -- System operating and safety experience -- Application guidelines -- Field research: Evaluation of presignals -- Presignal design criteria -- Appendix A: Literature review -- Glossary.
- ISBN
- 0309067049
- 9780309067041
- LCCN
- 2001131617
- OCLC
- ocm47788709
- 47788709
- SCSB-1225629
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library