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5. Crossing Surface R
6. Intersecting Roadway Within 500 feet? R
7. Smallest Crossing Angle R
8. Is Commercial Power Available? O
Part V: Public Highway Information
1. Highway System R
2. Functional Classification of Road at Crossing R
Box Field Update Provided by State Update Provided by Railroad or Transit
Public Private Public Private
3. Is Crossing on State Highway System? R
4. Highway Speed Limit R
5. Linear Referencing System (LRS Route ID) O
6. LRS Milepost O
7. Annual Average Daily Traffic (AADT) R
8. Estimated Percent Trucks R
9. Regularly Used by School Buses? R
10. Emergency Service Route R
Submission Information
Name R R R
Organization R R R
Phone R R R
Date R R R

Note: Please refer to the individual sections of this Guide for exceptions to the Crossing Inventory Responsibility Table above.


APPENDIX C – Reporting Crossings That Have Multiple Operating Railroads

Except for situations where multiple railroads or urban rapid transit operators operate trains on separate tracks through the same crossing, if more than one operating railroad operates trains through a single highway-rail or pathway crossing, the primary operating railroad is responsible for submitting and updating crossing data on behalf of all the operating railroads that operate through the crossing.

Note: The primary operating railroad is the operating railroad that either owns or maintains the track through the highway-rail or pathway crossing, unless the crossing is located within a private company, port, or dock area. If more than one operating railroad either owns or maintains the track through the highwayrail or pathway crossing, or if no operating railroad owns or maintains the track through the highway-rail or pathway crossing, then the operating railroad that operates the highest number of trains through the crossing is the primary operating railroad. In the event that there is only one operating railroad that operates one or more trains through a highway-rail or pathway crossing, that operating railroad is the primary operating railroad.

Where multiple railroads or urban rapid transit operators operate trains on separate tracks through the same crossing, each railroad or urban rapid transit operator must submit crossing data to the Crossing Inventory (see Part I, Item 7 above), and each must place its name in the field titled “Primary Operating Railroad” (this links each railroad to the data it has submitted). The primary operating railroad must submit the rest of the railroad-required data. Except for the train counts, the National Crossing Inventory Record will reflect the data for the primary operating railroad.

The FRA data management system will combine the critical data (such as train counts) to produce a combined Crossing Inventory Record for the crossing for analyzing the risk along with providing the individual records for each of the operating railroads. Each railroad must place its name in the field titled “Primary Operating Railroad” in Part 1, Box 1, in order to make clear which record belongs to which railroad.

Each Inventory Form submitted by multiple operating railroads for the same crossing will have the same crossing inventory number.

See the Figure below for an example of which fields must be completed and updated by each railroad or urban rapid transit operator that operates trains on separate tracks through the same crossing.

Areas highlighted in yellow are the fields required to be completed:






APPENDIX D – Definitions


Adjacent Crossings – grade crossings with separate Crossing Inventory Numbers, with their own separate warning devices, on the same vehicular highway or pathway, where the distance between the inside rail of each crossing, as measured along the highway or pathway, does not exceed 100 feet.

Annual Average Daily Traffic (AADT) – a figure that represents the amount of vehicles traveling past a known location on a roadway for a year, divided by 365 days. In the event that 365 consecutive days of traffic counts are not available, there are traffic engineering calculations that can be used to develop a representative figure for AADT based upon traffic counts of shorter duration.

Back Lights – a flashing light pair on the far side of the crossing, typically mounted 180 degrees on the signal mast or cantilever structure from the flashing light pair of the near side of the crossing.

Channelization Device – a traffic separation system made up of a raised longitudinal channelizer with vertical panels or tubular delineators that is placed between opposing highway traffic lanes designed to alert or guide traffic around an obstacle or to direct traffic in a particular direction.

Closed Crossing – a location where a previous crossing no longer exists because either the railroad tracks have been physically removed, or each pathway or roadway approach to the crossing has been physically removed, leaving behind no intersection of railroad tracks with either a pathway or roadway. A grade-separated highway-rail or pathway crossing that has been physically removed is also considered a closed crossing.

Crossing Inventory – the U.S. DOT National Highway-Rail Crossing Inventory.

Diagonal Crossing – a highway-rail crossing where the railroad tracks run diagonally through the highway-highway intersection, thus bisecting the two roadways. Only one Crossing Inventory Number is to be assigned to such locations.

Event Recorder – a device designed to resist tampering that monitors and records data on information at the grade crossing location such as (but not limited to) train speed, direction of motion, time, and distance over the most recent timeframe (e.g. last 24 or 48 hours) of the grade crossing warning system operation.

Flashing Light Pairs – two red-colored light units that flash alternately at a rate of 45 to 65 times per minute. The main components of a flashing light pair are the hood, background, roundel, lamp, lamp holder, reflector, and housing. The background is 20
or 24 inches in diameter and is painted a nonreflecting black to provide a contrast for the red light. The hood is also painted black.

Gate – an automatically-operated traffic control device which, when activated into a horizontal position, is intended to physically impede users such that they are discouraged from entering a particular grade crossing.

Two Quadrant Gates – a gate configuration featuring gates only on entrance lanes leading on to the crossing. If a crossing does not have any gates on any exit lanes leading off the crossing, then it is to be considered a “two-quadrant gate” crossing. Note: A gated crossing on a one-way street is to be considered a “2 Quad” gate configuration.

Three Quadrant Gates – a specific gate configuration featuring gates on all entrance lanes leading on to the crossing, but with only one exit leading off the crossing that is equipped with a gate.

Four Quadrant Gates – a specific gate configuration that features gates on all entrance and all exit lanes at the crossing. When four quadrant gates are activated and fully lowered, all entrance lanes and all exit lanes are blocked by gates .

Full (Barrier) Resistance Gates – a gate-like device that is specifically designed to physically prevent a highway vehicle from entering the crossing area when the resistance gate system is fully deployed.

Median Gates (sometimes referred to as dual entrance gates) – a supplemental gate installation located on a roadway’s median (to the left of the travel lanes) that works in combination with a gate installed on the outside edge of the roadway (to the right of the travel lanes) to jointly provide blockage of multiple lanes on a single roadway approach to the crossing, with both gate arm tips meeting (2-foot maximum gap) in the middle.

Grade Crossing – for purposes of the Inventory, either a highway-rail grade crossing, pathway grade crossing or pedestrian station grade crossing.

Highway-Rail Crossing – for purposes of the Crossing Inventory, the location where one or more railroad tracks intersect with a public highway, road, street, or private roadway, either at-grade or grade-separated, including associated sidewalks.

A crossing includes those tracks that lie within the same pair of warning devices. Thus, an intersection of a roadway with 3 tracks (2 mainline and 1 spur) where the mainline tracks have flashing lights and the spur track has crossbucks would be considered two crossings with two separate crossing inventory numbers. One crossing would consist of the mainline tracks with the flashing lights and one crossing would consist of the spur track that has crossbucks.

Highway-Rail Grade Crossing – for purposes of the Crossing Inventory, a highway-rail crossing that is at the same grade level as the railroad tracks.

Inventory Form – the U.S. DOT Crossing Inventory Form (Form FRA F 6180.71).

Inventory Number – the number assigned to a highway-rail crossing or pathway crossing in the Crossing Inventory.

Median – a non-traversable portion of a divided highway separating the travel ways for traffic in opposite directions.

MUTCD – the Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices published by the Federal Highway Administration.

Open Crossing – a highway-rail crossing or pathway crossing where both railroad operations and highway or pathway traffic are possible.

Operating Railroad – any railroad or urban rapid transit operator that operates one or more trains through a highway-rail crossing or pathway crossing on, or connected to, the general railroad system of transportation.

5. Crossing Surface R

6. Intersecting Roadway Within 500 feet? R

7. Smallest Crossing Angle R

8. Is Commercial Power Available? O

Part V: Public Highway Information

1. Highway System R

2. Functional Classification of Road at Crossing R

Box Field Update Provided by State Update Provided by Railroad or Transit

Public Private Public Private

3. Is Crossing on State Highway System? R

4. Highway Speed Limit R

5. Linear Referencing System (LRS Route ID) O

6. LRS Milepost O

7. Annual Average Daily Traffic (AADT) R

8. Estimated Percent Trucks R

9. Regularly Used by School Buses? R

10. Emergency Service Route R

Submission Information

Name R R R

Organization R R R

Phone R R R

Date R R R

Note: Please refer to the individual sections of this Guide for exceptions to the Crossing Inventory Responsibility Table above.

APPENDIX C – Reporting Crossings That Have Multiple Operating Railroads

Except for situations where multiple railroads or urban rapid transit operators operate trains on separate tracks through the same crossing, if more than one operating railroad operates trains through a single highway-rail or pathway crossing, the primary operating railroad is responsible for submitting and updating crossing data on behalf of all the operating railroads that operate through the crossing.

Note: The primary operating railroad is the operating railroad that either owns or maintains the track through the highway-rail or pathway crossing, unless the crossing is located within a private company, port, or dock area. If more than one operating railroad either owns or maintains the track through the highwayrail or pathway crossing, or if no operating railroad owns or maintains the track through the highway-rail or pathway crossing, then the operating railroad that operates the highest number of trains through the crossing is the primary operating railroad. In the event that there is only one operating railroad that operates one or more trains through a highway-rail or pathway crossing, that operating railroad is the primary operating railroad.

Where multiple railroads or urban rapid transit operators operate trains on separate tracks through the same crossing, each railroad or urban rapid transit operator must submit crossing data to the Crossing Inventory (see Part I, Item 7 above), and each must place its name in the field titled “Primary Operating Railroad” (this links each railroad to the data it has submitted). The primary operating railroad must submit the rest of the railroad-required data. Except for the train counts, the National Crossing Inventory Record will reflect the data for the primary operating railroad.

The FRA data management system will combine the critical data (such as train counts) to produce a combined Crossing Inventory Record for the crossing for analyzing the risk along with providing the individual records for each of the operating railroads. Each railroad must place its name in the field titled “Primary Operating Railroad” in Part 1, Box 1, in order to make clear which record belongs to which railroad.

Each Inventory Form submitted by multiple operating railroads for the same crossing will have the same crossing inventory number.

See the Figure below for an example of which fields must be completed and updated by each railroad or urban rapid transit operator that operates trains on separate tracks through the same crossing.

Areas highlighted in yellow are the fields required to be completed:

APPENDIX D – Definitions

Adjacent Crossings – grade crossings with separate Crossing Inventory Numbers, with their own separate warning devices, on the same vehicular highway or pathway, where the distance between the inside rail of each crossing, as measured along the highway or pathway, does not exceed 100 feet.

Annual Average Daily Traffic (AADT) – a figure that represents the amount of vehicles traveling past a known location on a roadway for a year, divided by 365 days. In the event that 365 consecutive days of traffic counts are not available, there are traffic engineering calculations that can be used to develop a representative figure for AADT based upon traffic counts of shorter duration.

Back Lights – a flashing light pair on the far side of the crossing, typically mounted 180 degrees on the signal mast or cantilever structure from the flashing light pair of the near side of the crossing.

Channelization Device – a traffic separation system made up of a raised longitudinal channelizer with vertical panels or tubular delineators that is placed between opposing highway traffic lanes designed to alert or guide traffic around an obstacle or to direct traffic in a particular direction.

Closed Crossing – a location where a previous crossing no longer exists because either the railroad tracks have been physically removed, or each pathway or roadway approach to the crossing has been physically removed, leaving behind no intersection of railroad tracks with either a pathway or roadway. A grade-separated highway-rail or pathway crossing that has been physically removed is also considered a closed crossing.

Crossing Inventory – the U.S. DOT National Highway-Rail Crossing Inventory.

Diagonal Crossing – a highway-rail crossing where the railroad tracks run diagonally through the highway-highway intersection, thus bisecting the two roadways. Only one Crossing Inventory Number is to be assigned to such locations.

Event Recorder – a device designed to resist tampering that monitors and records data on information at the grade crossing location such as (but not limited to) train speed, direction of motion, time, and distance over the most recent timeframe (e.g. last 24 or 48 hours) of the grade crossing warning system operation.

Flashing Light Pairs – two red-colored light units that flash alternately at a rate of 45 to 65 times per minute. The main components of a flashing light pair are the hood, background, roundel, lamp, lamp holder, reflector, and housing. The background is 20

or 24 inches in diameter and is painted a nonreflecting black to provide a contrast for the red light. The hood is also painted black.

Gate – an automatically-operated traffic control device which, when activated into a horizontal position, is intended to physically impede users such that they are discouraged from entering a particular grade crossing.

Two Quadrant Gates – a gate configuration featuring gates only on entrance lanes leading on to the crossing. If a crossing does not have any gates on any exit lanes leading off the crossing, then it is to be considered a “two-quadrant gate” crossing. Note: A gated crossing on a one-way street is to be considered a “2 Quad” gate configuration.

Three Quadrant Gates – a specific gate configuration featuring gates on all entrance lanes leading on to the crossing, but with only one exit leading off the crossing that is equipped with a gate.

Four Quadrant Gates – a specific gate configuration that features gates on all entrance and all exit lanes at the crossing. When four quadrant gates are activated and fully lowered, all entrance lanes and all exit lanes are blocked by gates .

Full (Barrier) Resistance Gates – a gate-like device that is specifically designed to physically prevent a highway vehicle from entering the crossing area when the resistance gate system is fully deployed.

Median Gates (sometimes referred to as dual entrance gates) – a supplemental gate installation located on a roadway’s median (to the left of the travel lanes) that works in combination with a gate installed on the outside edge of the roadway (to the right of the travel lanes) to jointly provide blockage of multiple lanes on a single roadway approach to the crossing, with both gate arm tips meeting (2-foot maximum gap) in the middle.

Grade Crossing – for purposes of the Inventory, either a highway-rail grade crossing, pathway grade crossing or pedestrian station grade crossing.

Highway-Rail Crossing – for purposes of the Crossing Inventory, the location where one or more railroad tracks intersect with a public highway, road, street, or private roadway, either at-grade or grade-separated, including associated sidewalks.

A crossing includes those tracks that lie within the same pair of warning devices. Thus, an intersection of a roadway with 3 tracks (2 mainline and 1 spur) where the mainline tracks have flashing lights and the spur track has crossbucks would be considered two crossings with two separate crossing inventory numbers. One crossing would consist of the mainline tracks with the flashing lights and one crossing would consist of the spur track that has crossbucks.

Highway-Rail Grade Crossing – for purposes of the Crossing Inventory, a highway-rail crossing that is at the same grade level as the railroad tracks.

Inventory Form – the U.S. DOT Crossing Inventory Form (Form FRA F 6180.71).

Inventory Number – the number assigned to a highway-rail crossing or pathway crossing in the Crossing Inventory.

Median – a non-traversable portion of a divided highway separating the travel ways for traffic in opposite directions.

MUTCD – the Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices published by the Federal Highway Administration.

Open Crossing – a highway-rail crossing or pathway crossing where both railroad operations and highway or pathway traffic are possible.

Operating Railroad – any railroad or urban rapid transit operator that operates one or more trains through a highway-rail crossing or pathway crossing on, or connected to, the general railroad system of transportation.