An evaluation of modifications to the advance warning sign at passive highway-railroad grade crossings /
Act, there is quite a potential for an increase in rail
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| Format: | Thesis eBook |
| Language: | English |
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1995.
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| Online Access: | Link to OAKTrust copy |
| Summary: | Act, there is quite a potential for an increase in rail addition of a strobe light to an advance warning preceding a and the fact that they were trying to determine what was better attention gaining qualities than the standard sign crossing safety. The background and supporting information driver behavior at highway-railroad grade crossings, and effectiveness of traffic control devices that have explains the importance of this research relative to other flasher modified signs did, however, solicit more braking flashing with such an irregular pattern. grade crossings is still a major concern. This thesis in any adverse driver reactions. The strobe light and includes information on highway-railroad grade crossings, investigates modifications to the existing advance warning light sign was preferred over the standard sign. Both the maneuvers. Approaching motor vehicles detected by a motion modification to the strobe light. Furthermore, the strobe modified with a standard flasher and an the advance warning number of vehicle-train collisions that occurred decreased 47 opinions of the three signs they saw on the driving course: Participants clearly preferred the standard flasher participated in a group discussion to determine their passive railroad crossing would result in adverse driver percent between 1981 and 1992, safety at highway-railroad reactions such as slamming on the brakes or erratic steering research being conducted in the area of railroad grade review was conducted to find supporting information that sensor activate a strobe light which flashed until the sign modified with a vehicle activated strobe light. None of sign used at highway-railroad grade crossings. A literature some drivers simply did not like the strobe light, only three strobe fight and the standard flasher were said to have subjects said it startled them. Most of the startling that supplemented the standard signing system with strobe lights. system was tested at a closed driving course at the Texas A&M test, study participants completed a questionnaire and than did the standard sign. Head movement at each of the that made drivers exercise greater caution near them. While The objective of this research was to determine if the the standard advance warning sign, the advance warning sign the three signs, including the strobe modified sign, resulted they experienced was attributed to the novelty of the strobe three signs was not found to be statistically different. traffic in the state of Texas. Despite the fact that the University Riverside Campus. In addition to the driving vehicle passed the advance warning sign. The modified sign With the passage of the North American Free Trade Agreement |
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| Item Description: | "Major subject: Civil Engineering". Vita. |
| Physical Description: | x, 82 leaves : illustrations ; 28 cm. Also available online. Issued also on microfiche from Lange Micrographics. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |