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`Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part F:
`Journal of Rail and Rapid Transit
`pif.sagepub.com
`
`doi: 10.1243/PIME_PROC_1995_209_251_02
`Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part F: Journal of Rail and
`Rapid Transit January 1995 vol. 209 no. 1 25-31
`Design for the Alleviation of Transportation
`Fatality Risk by the Implementation of New
`Light Rail Transit
`
`R Huston, BME1
`P Cardimen, BME1
`K Halperin, PhD1
`
`1 Department of Mechanical Engineering, Penn State—Erie, Pennsylvania,
`USA
`Abstract
`
`There is a tendency for each engineering community to think of safety only in the
`context of its own system. Rail engineers think of the safety of the existing rail system
`and road engineers of the existing road systems. The important safety, however, is that
`of the entire population. And that safety is considerably higher on rails than on roads.
`The research question then arises as to whether it is possible to correct an existing road
`safety problem by design of a rail system. Given the human lives at stake, it is a
`question worth answering.
`A design is presented for correction of the highest death rate road in a particular urban
`area by installation of a light rail system. The road is a 2.6-mile (4.2-km) stretch of urban
`arterial that has had 18 fatalities in the past thirteen years. The light rail system is
`shown to be a possible solution to the problem, both from the standpoint of design and
`from that of economics. It is predicted that the new design should prevent 1.25 fatalities
`per year.
`
`safety
`
`risk assessment
`
`Received June 22, 1994.
`Accepted April 4, 1995.
`
`http://pif.sagepub.com/content/209/1/25.abstract
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`7/27/2014
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`AVS EXHIBIT 2038
`Toyota Inc. v. American Vehicular Sciences LLC
`IPR2013-00417
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