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Connected Vehicles at Highway-Rail Grade Crossings Research

An overview of the vehicle-to-infrastructure (V2I) safety application. (U.S. DOT Volpe Center graphic)

The U.S. DOT Volpe Center’s Systems Safety and Engineering Division supports Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) research activities related to designing, developing, and testing the Railroad Crossing Violation Warning (RCVW) vehicle-to-infrastructure (V2I) safety application for connected vehicles. The team also supports outreach programs to railroads and automobile industry stakeholders to solicit technology implementation.

This collection of publications and papers covers the development of the RCVW reference implementation system as well as deployment, testing, and evaluation of this technology at a connected vehicle testbed/pilot with an active highway-rail grade crossing.

2019

Highway-Rail Intersection Crash Taxonomy for Connected Vehicle Safety Research: 2008-2017 – Ten Year Trend 
FRA Office of Research, Development, and Technology
Adrian Hellman and Paul Poirier  
July 2019

2015

Highway-Rail Intersection Crash Taxonomy for Connected Vehicle Safety Research
FRA Office of Research, Development and Technology
Adrian Hellman and Gabriel Lopez-Bernal (TranSystems)
May 2015

Last updated: Thursday, September 16, 2021