Highway-Rail Crossing Handbook
technical-working-group-guidance — Technical Working Group Guidance
Crossing Handbook · Chapter 3 — Treatment Selection Guidance. Full current text with cross-references on BuildSpec.
TECHNICAL WORKING GROUP GUIDANCE Following the 1995 collision in Fox River Grove, IL, between a Metra commuter train and a school bus, which resulted in the deaths of seven students, the USDOT established a Technical Working Group (TWG) to develop “best practices” guidance on a selection of crossing treatments. The TWG included representatives from the FHWA, FRA, FTA, and NHTSA, along with traffic engineers and rail signaling engineers with a working knowledge of crossing treatments. The cooperation among the various representatives of TWG represented a landmark interdisciplinary effort to…
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