Table 2-13: Warning Devices at Public Highway-Rail Grade Crossings: 2009
Table 2-13: Warning Devices at Public Highway-Rail Grade Crossings: 2009
| State | Total (number) | Percent of total | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cross bucks | Gates | Flashing lights | Stop signs | Unknown | Special warning | HWTS, WW, bells | Other | ||
| Alabama | 2,835 | 25.9 | 26.2 | 18.2 | 24.3 | 1.6 | 0.6 | 3.1 | 0.3 |
| Alaska | 172 | 34.9 | 41.3 | 5.2 | 14.0 | 1.2 | 2.9 | 0.0 | 0.6 |
| Arizona | 778 | 29.0 | 51.5 | 6.0 | 9.4 | 1.5 | 1.7 | 0.8 | 0.0 |
| Arkansas | 2,961 | 55.6 | 15.0 | 13.3 | 7.5 | 3.8 | 2.1 | 2.6 | 0.0 |
| California | 6,491 | 31.1 | 47.7 | 12.2 | 3.7 | 1.7 | 0.4 | 3.0 | 0.2 |
| Colorado | 1,726 | 48.3 | 26.9 | 10.0 | 9.7 | 1.9 | 1.2 | 1.7 | 0.3 |
| Connecticut | 367 | 7.4 | 27.2 | 39.0 | 12.8 | 4.4 | 7.9 | 1.4 | 0.0 |
| Delaware | 268 | 8.2 | 24.3 | 59.7 | 0.4 | 0.7 | 6.3 | 0.4 | 0.0 |
| District of Columbia | 5 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 40.0 | 20.0 | 0.0 | 40.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| Florida | 3,767 | 15.9 | 63.5 | 11.7 | 5.3 | 1.6 | 1.8 | 0.2 | 0.1 |
| Georgia | 5,390 | 27.2 | 37.6 | 4.7 | 22.0 | 2.3 | 2.1 | 3.8 | 0.3 |
| Hawaii | 8 | 75.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 12.5 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 12.5 |
| Idaho | 1,289 | 32.2 | 12.3 | 13.3 | 41.3 | 0.7 | 0.1 | 0.2 | 0.0 |
| Illinois | 7,838 | 31.9 | 38.3 | 24.1 | 1.1 | 2.2 | 0.9 | 1.4 | 0.1 |
| Indiana | 5,928 | 25.7 | 32.6 | 21.3 | 16.7 | 2.1 | 0.2 | 1.2 | 0.2 |
| Iowa | 4,404 | 47.7 | 22.0 | 18.5 | 10.0 | 0.7 | 0.5 | 0.5 | 0.1 |
| Kansas | 5,352 | 62.1 | 23.4 | 7.6 | 3.2 | 1.2 | 1.1 | 1.2 | 0.0 |
| Kentucky | 2,356 | 40.9 | 19.0 | 30.6 | 2.2 | 5.1 | 2.0 | 0.3 | 0.0 |
| Louisiana | 3,027 | 43.9 | 28.3 | 16.0 | 6.8 | 3.7 | 0.7 | 0.2 | 0.3 |
| Maine | 826 | 32.8 | 10.0 | 47.1 | 1.3 | 0.8 | 7.3 | 0.6 | 0.0 |
| Maryland | 640 | 32.3 | 19.2 | 31.4 | 6.3 | 3.4 | 3.8 | 3.1 | 0.5 |
| Massachusetts | 835 | 12.8 | 40.2 | 32.5 | 1.3 | 4.0 | 7.2 | 1.7 | 0.4 |
| Michigan | 4,847 | 20.8 | 22.2 | 25.1 | 27.3 | 2.1 | 1.6 | 0.7 | 0.1 |
| Minnesota | 4,558 | 46.1 | 23.2 | 9.0 | 20.0 | 1.2 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.1 |
| Mississippi | 2,246 | 33.8 | 21.2 | 18.4 | 18.8 | 2.5 | 1.2 | 1.4 | 2.6 |
| Missouri | 3,964 | 50.0 | 22.3 | 18.3 | 3.0 | 3.8 | 1.6 | 1.0 | 0.1 |
| Montana | 1,393 | 59.7 | 19.7 | 11.5 | 6.3 | 0.6 | 0.4 | 0.1 | 1.7 |
| Nebraska | 3,016 | 64.5 | 20.9 | 6.0 | 6.2 | 2.0 | 0.1 | 0.2 | 0.1 |
| Nevada | 286 | 42.7 | 43.4 | 8.4 | 3.5 | 0.3 | 0.7 | 0.3 | 0.7 |
| New Hampshire | 348 | 28.4 | 12.4 | 35.1 | 12.6 | 1.1 | 9.5 | 0.6 | 0.3 |
| New Jersey | 1,555 | 17.8 | 28.9 | 38.5 | 0.8 | 4.0 | 8.9 | 1.1 | 0.0 |
| New Mexico | 723 | 48.5 | 33.9 | 11.3 | 2.4 | 2.6 | 0.0 | 0.7 | 0.6 |
| New York | 2,683 | 16.8 | 63.3 | 10.1 | 1.3 | 2.0 | 3.8 | 2.2 | 0.4 |
| North Carolina | 3,912 | 27.4 | 51.7 | 11.0 | 2.6 | 4.5 | 2.1 | 0.4 | 0.3 |
| North Dakota | 3,497 | 80.5 | 15.7 | 0.9 | 1.9 | 1.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| Ohio | 5,848 | 34.8 | 47.2 | 14.3 | 2.2 | 0.5 | 0.6 | 0.4 | 0.0 |
| Oklahoma | 3,890 | 59.0 | 22.3 | 13.2 | 2.2 | 1.3 | 1.4 | 0.4 | 0.2 |
| Oregon | 1,858 | 32.1 | 34.1 | 5.5 | 20.1 | 3.1 | 2.0 | 1.7 | 1.4 |
| Pennsylvania | 3,490 | 29.4 | 27.3 | 29.1 | 4.8 | 2.0 | 5.2 | 1.8 | 0.4 |
| Rhode Island | 67 | 6.0 | 23.9 | 22.4 | 0.0 | 9.0 | 13.4 | 25.4 | 0.0 |
| South Carolina | 2,710 | 18.9 | 39.4 | 13.4 | 25.1 | 0.3 | 2.5 | 0.3 | 0.1 |
| South Dakota | 1,914 | 78.4 | 2.8 | 13.2 | 1.8 | 3.8 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| Tennessee | 2,815 | 38.2 | 27.4 | 21.3 | 6.1 | 2.4 | 3.9 | 0.4 | 0.2 |
| Texas | 9,817 | 36.5 | 47.3 | 9.5 | 2.1 | 3.3 | 0.7 | 0.6 | 0.1 |
| Utah | 698 | 24.8 | 32.4 | 13.8 | 19.3 | 3.3 | 4.6 | 1.9 | 0.0 |
| Vermont | 377 | 28.9 | 8.0 | 46.2 | 7.2 | 1.3 | 8.0 | 0.5 | 0.0 |
| Virginia | 1,945 | 18.5 | 59.4 | 17.1 | 1.6 | 2.4 | 0.2 | 0.8 | 0.1 |
| Washington | 2,540 | 48.9 | 23.0 | 13.1 | 3.8 | 8.7 | 1.1 | 1.1 | 0.2 |
| West Virginia | 1,442 | 43.3 | 15.7 | 30.9 | 2.6 | 6.0 | 0.7 | 0.4 | 0.4 |
| Wisconsin | 4,070 | 35.1 | 20.7 | 24.0 | 18.2 | 1.0 | 0.1 | 0.8 | 0.1 |
| Wyoming | 389 | 29.3 | 51.9 | 14.1 | 1.3 | 1.8 | 0.3 | 1.3 | 0.0 |
| United States, total | 134,161 | 37.9 | 32.4 | 15.8 | 8.7 | 2.3 | 1.5 | 1.1 | 0.2 |
KEY: HWTS = highway traffic signals; WW = wigwags.
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Transportation, Federal Railroad Administration, 2009 Preliminary Railroad Safety Statistics Bulletin (Washington, DC: December 2010), table 9-4, available at http://safetydata.fra.dot.gov/OfficeofSafety/ as of Jun. 21, 2011.