Stay on the Right Track



About Project:

It was our task to do a lot of Quantitative research. I gathered statistics from the U.S. Department of Transportation's Federal Railroad Administration (FRA). They put out a report every year. I chose 2011, it was the most recent report. I refined 138 pages of information into a story for this project. It was very challenging, but fun!

The front of the brochure, and one thats turned over to reveal the back.

I wanted it to fold up like a map, yet be small enough that it wouldn't be intrusive if someone decided to take it with them through town. If they wanted to read it somewhere while waiting it wouldn't be this gigantic, piece of complicatedly folded paper.

These luggage tags have facts on them to reassure passengers that it's safer to ride trains.

Since my project focuses on train accidents, I wanted the viewer to be able to take something away from viewing the project that lifted them back up. These luggage tags (right) have facts on them that are reassuring. Except for the snake bite one I've been told...

One of the facts was that it is 174 percent more likely to die in a car crash than a train crash. This is a spread of all the luggage tag fronts. Train accident luggage tags front and back.

On the back of the luggage tag is a place to write your name, address, phone number and departure date. I wanted the tags to serve a practical purpose as well as an informative one.

This is the back of the brochure. This is organized by states with the most train accidents. Train accident deaths of passengers verses the railroad term of trespassers.

I wanted the heading typography to feel like an arrival and departure board at a train station. So I used a condensed typeface.

Accidents by train company, as well as accidents that caused death. This is the front side of the brochure. I tried to use colors that would remind the viewer of trains. This view displays the felonies and misdemeanors map as well as the train accidents by time zone map.

States in red are ones where it's a felony to walk on the railroad tracks, the salmon color is a misdemeanor, gray is no tresspassing law (specific to trains), and the rest of the colors vary in degrees of severity between 1st class offense and 3rd class offense.

I included the digital version so the viewer of this could read without obstruction. This is a detail of a statistic that states 654,104,228 people have ridden on trains last year, which could cover about 23 square miles. This is a map of where it's a felony, misdemeanor or no law written if one was to walk on the train tracks. I included the digital version so the viewer of this could read without obstruction.

I did this really late at night, so please forgive my lack of articulation. Also since our assignment was to create a 3 minute presentation of our project, I did a lot of audio editing.

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