FRA Form 57: Highway-Rail Grade Crossing Incident Reports

Highway-Rail Grade Crossing Incident Data (Form 57) contains reports of impacts between railroad equipment and highway users at grade crossings. Railroads submit these reports to the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA). The dataset is provided by the Department of Transportation.

Use Cases

• Analyze accident frequency and severity trends based on reported incident data
• Identify risk factors for highway-rail grade crossing collisions based on incident reports
• Evaluate the effectiveness of safety interventions at grade crossings based on incident history

Strengths

• Data is collected via a standardized federal reporting form (FRA F 6180.57)
• A data dictionary is available to explain field semantics
• Data is available in multiple machine-readable formats (JSON, XML, CSV)

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent from the input; field semantics must be inferred after download
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment
• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download

Provenance

Source

Department of Transportation

Collection Method

Reports submitted by railroads to the Federal Railroad Administration on Form FRA F 6180.57.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-03-26 12:44:22.795098; freshness should be verified