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TCRP Synthesis J-07/Topic SA-20 [Final (Synthesis)]

Light Rail Vehicle Collisions with Vehicles at Signalized Intersections
[ TCRP J-07 (Synthesis of Information Related to Transit Practices) ]

  Project Data
Funds: $30,000
Authorization to Begin Work: 5/18/2007 -- estimated
Staff Responsibility: Donna L. Vlasak
Effective Date: 11/6/2007
Completion Date: 11/6/2008
Fiscal Year: 2007

TRB’s Transit Cooperative Research Program (TCRP) Synthesis 79: Light Rail Vehicle Collisions with Vehicles at Signalized Intersections explores mitigation methods tested and used by transit agencies to reduce collisions between light rail vehicles (LRVs) and motor vehicles where light rail transit (LRT) runs through or adjacent to highway intersections controlled by conventional traffic signals. 

The report is published at https://www.trb.org/news/blurb_detail.asp?id=10004.

 

 

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