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Increasing Railroad Safety via Digitized Maps

We live in a digital world, and many people are literally GPS driven. Putting railroad crossings on digitized maps that are used by the various mapping systems only makes sense.

See this story about the first step toward making our roads and rails safer: Railroad official asks digital map makers to mark crossings.

The next step would be digitizing the locations of trains on the tracks and showing them in real time. I suppose there might be some daredevil who might try to game the system, but then Darwin's law would enter into the equation. 

Steve Myers shared the link.

Eric Holdeman is a contributing writer for Emergency Management magazine and is the former director of the King County, Wash., Office of Emergency Management.