[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 23, Volume 1]
[Revised as of April 1, 2002]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 23CFR924.9]

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                           TITLE 23--HIGHWAYS
 
 CHAPTER I--FEDERAL HIGHWAY ADMINISTRATION, DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
 
PART 924--HIGHWAY SAFETY IMPROVEMENT PROGRAM--Table of Contents
 
Sec. 924.9  Planning.

    (a) The planning component of the highway safety improvement program 
shall incorporate:
    (1) A process for collecting and maintaining a record of accident, 
traffic, and highway data, including, for railroad-highway grade 
crossings, the characteristics of both highway and train traffic;
    (2) A process for analyzing available data to identify highway 
locations, sections and elements determined to be hazardous on the basis 
of accident experience or accident potential;
    (3) A process for conducting engineering studies of hazardous 
locations, sections, and elements to develop highway safety improvement 
projects as defined in 23 U.S.C. 101(a); and
    (4) A process for establishing priorities for implementing highway 
safety improvement, projects, considering:
    (i) The potential reduction in the number and/or severity of 
accidents,
    (ii) The cost of the projects and the resources available,
    (iii) The relative hazard of public railroad-highway grade crossings 
based on a hazard index formula,
    (iv) Onsite inspection of public grade crossings,
    (v) The potential danger to large numbers of people at public grade 
crossings used on a regular basis by

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passenger trains, school buses, transit buses, pedestrians, bicyclists, 
or by trains and/or motor vehicles carrying hazardous materials, and
    (vi) Other criteria as appropriate in each State.
    (b) In planning a program of safety improvement projects at 
railroad-highway grade crossings, special emphasis shall be given to the 
legislative requirement that all public crossings be provided with 
standard signing.
    (c) The planning component of the highway safety improvement program 
may be financed with funds made available through 23 U.S.C. 402, 307(c), 
and, where applicable, 104(f).