Cyclist Safety at Grade Crossings

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The live event has ended. Recording now available to view on-demand.

This webinar is led by ITE Rail Grade Crossing Committee.

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Webinar Description:
This webinar is a presentation and summary of two ITE’s Quick Bites developed from the Grade Crossing Committee. This session will provide an overview of the importance of recognizing safety concerns of existing or proposed bicycle infrastructure at railroad grade crossing that are skewed at the roadway approach. Content will also cover best practices in implementation of two-way separated bike lanes at railroad crossings including overcoming some common challenges and design limitations. In addition, this webinar will discuss working examples that have been implemented in the City of Medford, Oregon.

Learning Objectives:

Recognize safety concerns and challenges of designing bicycle infrastructure in and around skewed railroad grade crossings
Discuss newly designed projects and the planning, design, and implementation of two-way separated bike lanes
Relate a summary of updated revisions made to the MUTCD 11th Edition with respect to cyclist

Policies:
The webinar recording will be made available on-demand it will have a shelf life of 60 days to register before it is archived. Participants are able to purchase and retrieve their PDH credit certificate until their access to the content expires. After the content expires and goes into archive, the PDH credit certificate opportunity is forfeited.

Contributors

Moderator: Nicole Jackson, P.E., PTOE, Group Manager | Benesch | Fort Worth, Texas, USA

Nicole Jackson is a Group Manager of Grade Crossing Engineering at Benesch. She specializes in highway-rail grade crossing engineering and is a national expert in railroad preemption operation and design. Ms. Jackson has more than 24 years of extensive experience in providing diagnostic services, traffic engineering analysis, as well developing unique solutions to some of the most challenging grade crossings in the country. She has reviewed and led grade crossing designs for compliance with national, state and railroad requirements, regulations and industry best practices in multiple states and with multiple railroads. She also serves in a leadership position on the Institute of Transportation Engineer’s (ITE) grade crossing committee and is a member of the National Committee on Uniform Traffic Control Devices (NCUTCD) grade crossing committee. Ms. Jackson is a licensed professional engineer in 35 U.S. states and four Canadian provinces, as well as a registered Professional Traffic Operations Engineer.
Antonino Genoese, P.E., Principal Project Manager | Gannett Fleming | Oakland, California, USA

As Principal Project Manager, Transit and Rail with diversified planning, design, and construction management experience with an emphasis in transit and transportation projects. He understands project development and delivery at every phase of the project life cycle, as well as what is required to successfully integrate each project phase into a larger program. His technical experience includes transit signal and communication systems, on-board transit vehicle systems, digital mobile radio communications, Passenger Information Display Systems (PIDS), Intelligent Transportation Systems, Transportation Management Centers, civil design, traffic operations, and lighting.

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Contributors

Moderator: Nicole Jackson, P.E., PTOE, Group Manager | Benesch | Fort Worth, Texas, USA

Antonino Genoese, P.E., Principal Project Manager | Gannett Fleming | Oakland, California, USA