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Austin, TX

A million-person city with 101 at-grade crossings.

Growth market
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Summary

MetroAustin
RailroadsUnion Pacific · Capital Metro / Austin Western
Open at-grade crossings101
Vehicles a day crossing tracks at grade922,302
Busiest crossing in the modelFM 1626 (447641U): 17,440 vehicles/day, 19 trains/day
Growth driverPassed 1 million residents; metro +53,796 in 2025
Data sourceFRA Crossing Inventory, retrieved Oct 2, 2026. Several central Austin UP crossings list 0 trains with traffic counts from 2009–2011, so they look out of date. The model uses crossings with current train counts.

Blockage scenario

Time
$224K
10,406 person-hours a year
Trade
279
truck-hours a year, worth $9,964 in driver time
Pollution
17 t
CO₂ from 1,889 gallons idled, like 3.7 cars for a year

Example scenario. No blockage reports have been compiled for this city yet.

Blockages modeled per crossing per year156
Vehicles stopped by one blockage356
Trucks stopped by one blockage14
Person-hours lost per year10,406
Value of lost time per year$224K
Truck-hours idled per year279
Gallons of fuel idled per year1,889
CO₂ per year (metric tons)17

Screening estimate. Each selected crossing is blocked for the set time; drivers wait half of it on average. Method and sources

Crossings in the model

CrossingUSDOT IDVehicles/dayCount yearTrains/dayTrucks
447641U17,4402025195%
448407G16,7352025193%

Uncheck a crossing to remove it from the scenario. "~" truck shares use the city's traffic-weighted average where the inventory reports none.

On the record