Accident/incident Bulletin


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Rail-highway Crossings Study


Book Description

The last report to Congress on rail-highway crossing safety was in 1971-72. Since then, several actions and changes have occurred. These are discussed in the Executive Summary which is included in this report. This discussion is followed by 8 chapters. The final chapter summarizes the findings of this study on each of nine identified issues, as well as other issues identified during the course of the study.













National Transportation Statistics (1997)


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Presents basic information on America's transportation system at the national scale, including the physical network, economic performance, and its safety record, energy use, and related air emissions. Includes statistics on travel and goods movement; vehicle, aircraft, and vessel inventories; consumer and government expenditures on transportation; employment and productivity of transportation industries; and transportation's safety record with data on fatalities, injuries, and accidents for each mode and for hazardous materials. Appendices include modal profiles, metric conversion tables and a glossary. Tables. Bibliography.