To determine the feasibility of developing an automated methodology of generating roughness data for classifying railroad crossings, several technical challenges had to be addressed. The technical challenges addressed in this study are: Utilizing existing equipment, testing methods, and data recording formats, to determine a means of locating railroad-highway grade crossings in profile data currently being collected by the Indiana Department of Transportation; Utilizing profile data currently being collected by the Indiana Department of Transportation, develop a method for isolating and quantifying the roughness associated with railroad-highway grade crossings; and Correlate the roughness associated with railroad crossings to the traveling public perception of acceptable, and unacceptable, levels of roughness. Once these technical challenges were met, the final goal of the study was to assemble the methods required to locate and extract roughness data associated with railroad crossings into an informational package to be adopted by the vendor currently under contract to collect roughness data. The vendor would implement these methods and report the roughness associated with railroad crossings as an additional term of the contract. After receiving this data, the Department of Transportation could utilize it in prioritizing railroad crossing repairs and determining the level of repair necessary.


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    Title :

    Classification of Railroad Crossings in Indiana by Roughness


    Contributors:

    Publication date :

    2003


    Size :

    365 pages


    Type of media :

    Report


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English




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