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原文传递 INTELLLIGENT TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS (ITS) APPLICATIONS TO RAILROAD CROSSING SAFETY: A SUMMARY OF U.S. ACTIVITIES.

题名：	INTELLLIGENT TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS (ITS) APPLICATIONS TO RAILROAD CROSSING SAFETY: A SUMMARY OF U.S. ACTIVITIES.
作者：	Polk-AE
关键词：	At-grade-intersections; California-; Commuter-cars; Countermeasures-; Fatalities-; High-school-students; Highway-safety; ITS-Joint-Program-Office-of-U.S.-Dept.-of-Transportation; Illinois-; Intelligent-transportation-systems; Minnesota-; National-Highway-System-bill-of-1995; New-York-State; Railroad-accidents; Railroad-grade-crossings; Railroad-safety; School-buses; Technology-; Texas-; Traffic-accidents; U.S.-Federal-Railroad-Administration; United-States
摘要：	Accidents at rail-highway grade crossings are an extremely serious problem throughout the United States. The most notorious railroad crossing accident in recent years occurred on October 25, 1995 when a Chicago & North Western commuter train crashed into a school bus in Fox River Grove, Illinois, killing seven high school students. Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) technology has the potential to improve safety at railroad crossings and help prevent accidents like the Fox River Grove crash in the future. The federal government responded to the Fox River Grove incident in several ways. U.S. Transportation Secretary Frederico Pena included railroad crossings as one of the eight components of an Intelligent Transportation Infrastructure that should be incorporated into the transportation systems of the 21st century. In the National Highway System bill of 1995 Congress required the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) to conduct two demonstrations of ITS-railroad crossings technology. Congress earmarked $1.25 million to an ITS-railroad crossing project in the FY96 Transportation Appropriations bill. In May 1996, the ITS Joint Program Office of the U.S. Department of Transportation designated "Highway Rail Intersections" as the 30th ITS user service within the national ITS Program Plan. Yet even before the Fox River Grove crash, the FRA, academia and several state departments of transportation were exploring the application of ITS to railroad crossing safety. This paper presents a summary of ITS-railroad crossing applications in the United States. Projects in California, Illinois, Minnesota, Texas and New York are among those profiled. Table 1 lists people who can be contacted for more information. The paper concludes with recommendations on how these disparate activities can coordinate their efforts and take advantage of the lessons learned in each particular test.
总页数：	Conference Title: 68th Annual Meeting of the Institute of Transportation Engineers. Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Sponsored by: Institute of Transportation Engineers. Held: 19980809-19980812. 1998. pp10
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