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Yes, I would love to see such a study too.  And you are right that the 2000 report does not offer that insight.  But I do find the 2000 report useful in quantifying the added danger from not blowing the horn.  That is all I was asking of the 1995 report, but while it found an increase in danger from withholding the horn from a variety of crossings, it did not clarify and difference in effect from one crossing type to another.  And as you and zugmann pointed out earlier, if their discovery of added danger from not blowing the horn had all been related only to passive crossings, then the result would have no meaning for the question I was asking. But now, with their clarification that a lack of horn increased the collisions at gated crossings with flashing lights, we have a base line to say how much safety is removed from such a crossing when the horn is removed for the creation of a quiet zone.  Then they only question remaining is to quantify the amount of safety that is added to the crossing by adding full gates or divider medians.  I am sure that the the full gates or divided medians reduce collisions, but I do not believe that they reduce collsions enough to balance the increase of collsions that results from removing the horn.  I base that belief on common sense and logic.
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