From
2017 to 2020, the Institute for Transportation Research and Education (ITRE)
has been engaged in research looking at rail network trespassing events in
North Carolina. Events were captured at known hot spots for one-to-two weeks
during each season of the year to help describe events by time-of-day,
day-of-week, and seasonally. The objective of the presentation delivered under
this implementation funding effort is to conduct outreach with community
leaders to better relay rail safety issues around pedestrians in the rail right
of way. Armed with this new information, it is our desire that community
leaders, law enforcement, and NCDOT begin to take appropriate steps to keep
pedestrians out of the path of trains, thus reversing the trend of pedestrian
strikes.
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