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Why has safety improved at rail-highway grade crossings?
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Mok, Shannon C. ‌
Why has safety improved at rail-highway grade crossings? / Shannon C. Mok and Ian Savage
The development in the 1970s and early 1980s of the operation lifesaver public education campaign, and the installation of addintional lights on locomotives in the 1990s, each led to about a seventh of the reduction on collisions and fatalities at railway-highway intersections.Finally, a major part of the reduction on this accidents is due to closure of crossings resulting from line abandonments of conslidation of little-used crossing
En: Risk analysis : an international journal. - New York and London. - Vol. 25, nº 4, August 2005 ; p. 867-881
1. Accidentes de tráfico ‌. 2. Causas de los accidentes ‌. 3. Análisis de siniestralidad ‌. 4. Ferrocarriles ‌. 5. Peatones ‌. I. Savage, Ian ‌. II. Title. III. Título: Risk analysis : an international journal.