Minnesota highway rail intersections low cost active warning system.

Author(s)
Nookala, M. & Collins, J.R.L.
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Abstract

Nearly 70% of all highway-rail intersection (HRI) fatalities occur at the 5000+ passive public railroad crossings in Minnesota. Until recently, it was cost prohibitive to provide active real-time warning at all HRI's. Minnesota has identified a system which shows promise to reduce the cost of providing active warning from $100,000-$150,000 (US) per crossing to about $10,000 per crossing. By implementing these new active warning systems, Minnesota could reduce the number of HRI fatalities by 60%, thus saving up to $5.9 million per year. For the covering abstract see ITRD E209471.

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C 26633 (In: C 26095 CD-ROM) /83 /91 / ITRD E119328
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In: ITS - Transforming the future : proceedings of the 8th World Congress on Intelligent Transportation Systems ITS, Sydney, Australia, 30 September - 4 October 2001, 7 p., 5 ref.

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