The Level Crossing Working Group is one of three groups designed to ensure that all ACRI participants influence ACRI’s research direction and strategic outcomes. The focus is to continually improve the safety of level crossing operations. Group members offer research ideas and endorse project proposals, research milestones and final outputs across a range of engineering and human factors investigations. Working Group members are nominated by ACRI participant bodies and meet remotely, chaired by ACRI.
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Research in-development:
- Developing a tool to guide sighting distance generation for private level crossings
- Evaluating safety measures and behaviours at level crossings along maintained but non-operational rail corridors
Research in-delivery:
- Evaluating level crossing visual warning devices for pedestrians using eye-tracking
- Evaluating retro-reflective screens to aid conspicuity of tabletop carriages at passive level crossings
- Investigating the use of train horns at rail level crossings
Research completed:
- Identifying improved stimuli for road user attention at level crossings
- Identifying and testing products that eliminate the need for level crossing rail flange gaps
- Better stimulus around Level Crossing control – initial project
- Evaluation of LES User Behaviour Study
- Evaluation of LES Observational Study
- Vysionics Vector LX system evaluation
- Level crossing sighting distances
- Impact of Waiting Times on Risk and Standardisation of Waiting Times
- Passive crossings and tabletop carriages – initial project
- Active ‘Expect Trains’ sign trial
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