Author: Dr. Ron Hughes, Eric Rodgman and Dr. Richard Stewart

Sponsoring Agency:  University of North Carolina Highway Safety Research Center

Date of Publication:  1999

Abstract:

Railroad ‘gate runners’ identified by photo surveillance instrumentation were contrasted with a sample of general ‘users’ of the same grade crossing. The two samples were contrasted in terms of the prior driving histories of the drivers involved. In addition, drivers in the sample of general users were administered a paper and pencil questionnaire developed by HSRC addressing drivers’ perceptions of the risks associated with grade crossing actions and similar actions at signalized intersections. Risk perception attributes of violators were inferred from relationships identified in the general user sample between driver history data and responses to the risk perception questionnaire.

No. of Pages:  40