TR News July-August 2019: Toward Railroad Trespassing Solutions
The July-August 2019
TR News includes a featured story that examines the data behind railroad trespassing fatalities, as well as countermeasures and research to reduce the rates of these deaths. The limitations of current interventions, from design solutions to procedures and rules, demonstrate the trespassing challenge: system-wide, the most beneficial interventions are seen as hard to implement on a large scale. But dogged research efforts and technological innovations open new opportunities for trespassing prevention, helping the railroad industry implement the most effective safety solutions.
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