MIAMI—A passenger-rail service that crosses dozens of roadways as it zips riders from here to West Palm Beach is adding physical barriers and testing technologies like drones and infrared sensors in response to a growing number of fatalities along its corridor. The challenges for the rail service, known as Brightline, highlight a problem confronting railroads across the U.S. Though fatalities at grade crossings—where roadways traverse tracks—have steadily declined in the past three decades, deaths due to suicides and trespassing...

Source: Wall Street Journal December 26, 2019 15:22 UTC