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This report provides documentation and presents the results of a study to improve the safety of light rail transit (LRT) in semiexclusive rights-of-way where light rail vehicles operate at speeds greater than 35 mph through crossings with streets and pedestrians pathways. This report also presents the results of field tests conducted to improve the safety of higher speed LRT systems through grade crossing design.
Presents 10 strategies used in both the United States and Europe to create transit-friendly streets. The strategies are followed by case studies of five communities that have pursued different initiatives to improve their livability by making their streets more transit-friendly.
TCRP Report 137: Improving Pedestrian and Motorist Safety Along Light Rail Transit Alignments addresses pedestrian and motorist behaviors contributing to light rail transit (LRT) safety and describes mitigating measures available to improve safety along LRT alignments. The report also includes recommendations to facilitate the compilation of accident data in a coordinated and homogeneous manner across LRT systems. Finally, the report provides a catalog of existing and innovative safety devices, safety treatments, and practices to use along LRT alignments. The results of this research may be useful to transit operators, consultants, and state safety oversight agencies.
The 1995 National Conference on Light Rail Transit (LRT), "Building on Success--Learning from Experience", emphasizes the lessons resulting from the maturing of North American LRT systems. The conference adds to the growing body of knowledge and real-world experiences with modern LRT applications. Volume 1, contains 36 conference papers, organized in four parts. Volume 2, contains both conference papers and associated papers presented at the 1996 Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board in Washington, D.C.
TCRP report 155 provides guidelines and descriptions for the design of various common types of light rail transit (LRT) track. The track structure types include ballasted track, direct fixation ("ballastless") track, and embedded track. The report considers the characteristics and interfaces of vehicle wheels and rail, tracks and wheel gauges, rail sections, alignments, speeds, and track moduli. The report includes chapters on vehicles, alignment, track structures, track components, special track work, aerial structures/bridges, corrosion control, noise and vibration, signals, traction power, and the integration of LRT track into urban streets.
As the engineering and planning communities continue their progress toward managed and integrated transportation systems, transit will play an increasing role. Fifteen United States cities have already selected and implemented light rail transit (LRT) as a rail transit alternative. As engineers plan and design new or expanded systems, it is essential at they have at their disposal the techniques and procedures necessary to make decisions for LRT placement, system design, and operations. This report, the fourth and final report for project 0-1278, combines and enhances the information contained in the three interim reports and contains a step-by step procedure for analyzing LRT at grade crossings and crossing impacts within signalized networks. Based on the proposed system features and location, transportation analysis identify crossing type and environment. They then select a model based on listed criteria, code and calibrate the model to existing conditions or values provided, and perform the analyses. The procedure includes checks for system failure. Finally, analysts assign user costs to the LRT impacts identified and qualified by the procedure, and select the optimum alternatives for LRT operation.