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FRA Update

FRA Update. 2008 Mid-States Highway-Rail Grade Crossing Safety Conference May 19, 2008 Grapevine, TX. Overview. Focus on Passenger Rail in the Mix Developments to Watch Integrated Transportation Safety Planning Results. Focus on Passenger Rail. Context: High speed rail

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FRA Update

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  1. FRA Update 2008 Mid-States Highway-Rail Grade Crossing Safety Conference May 19, 2008 Grapevine, TX

  2. Overview • Focus on Passenger Rail in the Mix • Developments to Watch • Integrated Transportation Safety Planning • Results

  3. Focus on Passenger Rail Context: • High speed rail • Commuter rail new starts • Shared use • Finding the future of intercity rail

  4. Focus on Passenger Rail Challenges: • Optimizing use of scarce rail corridors • Advancing passenger rail without creating new capacity choke points on the freight network • Achieving safety by building it in from the beginning • Adjusting public and private expectations while meeting mobility needs at a cost we can afford

  5. Focus on Passenger Rail Examples: • CalTrain electrification • California High Speed Rail • DesertXpress • Austin Metrorail • UTA FrontRunner

  6. Developments to Watch New Resources: • Traffic channelization • Pedestrian safety devices • Trespass Demographic Study – final Upcoming: • CalTrain Trespass Symposium – report • RSAC General Passenger Safety Task force • 2d train • Railroad Research Foundation Suicide Study

  7. Developments to Watch Better data, better analysis: • Pending legislation on National Grade Crossing Inventory • Building revised form and instructions • XML data interchange • Accident/Incident Reporting amendments (June 2008 NPRM) • Geo location • GRADEDEC

  8. Developments to Watch Private Crossing Inquiry • Final report pending • Decision making within DOT forthcoming • Final options for discussion • www.regulations.gov, FRA Docket No. 2005-23281

  9. Integrated Transportation Planning • Looking at the whole • Passenger safety • Employee safety • Public safety • System Safety Management regulatory task • Collision Hazard Analysis Guide • Corridor approach • Passenger – freight – public interface • PTC • ECP brakes

  10. Results

  11. Results

  12. Results

  13. Results

  14. Results

  15. QUESTIONS? Ron Ries (202) 493-6285 Ronald.rie2dot.govs

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