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Assessment of accident rate at lithuanian railways level crossings
Nauka ta progres transportu, 2013 Purpose. The most pressing problem facing the rail traffic safety experts is an accident rate at the railway level crossings. The purpose is to investigate the circumstances, which affect traffic safety at the level crossings, and to offer effective ...
Lionginas Liudvinavichius +1 more
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Traffic safety at level crossings in the Czech Republic [PDF]
HeliyonThe article deals with the issue of evaluation of the causes of accidents at level crossings in the Czech Republic, including the prediction of the development and proposals of measures for prevention and thus reduction of their number.
Jan Strohmandl +5 more
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Evaluation of Railway Level Crossing Attributes on Accident Causation in Lagos, Nigeria.
Indonesian Journal of Geography, 2017 The study examines the contribution of Railway Level Crossing (RLC)physical attributes to accident occurrence using the12 major level crossings within the Lagos metropolis. The 48km single track mainline section under consideration which barely make up 1.
Adeolu O Dina +2 more
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pedestrian railway crossing, level crossing, traffic safety, pedestrian, accident rate coefficient
Transport TechnologiesApplying the Ishikawa and the Bow-Tie techniques to identify root causes in a real-life passenger injury case while boarding a suburban train is examined, the effectiveness of existing control measures (barriers) is analyzed, and new ones are proposed in
Yaroslav Bolshelarskyi +4 more
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Cost Analysis and Prediction of Railroad Level Crossing Accidents for Indian Railways
Urban Rail TransitWith the tremendous increase in the number of vehicles, the dense traffic created can lead to accidents and fatalities. In a traffic system, the costs for accidents are immeasurable.
Anil Kumar Chhotu, Sanjeev Kumar Suman
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Comparison of fatal motor vehicle accidents at passive and active railway level crossings in Finland
IATSS Research, 2016 The study compares accidents at passive and active railway level crossings, and both immediate and background risk factors are considered. Passive railway level crossings have no warning devices, although there might be a static warning sign.
Sirkku Laapotti
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Nihon Kikai Gakkai ronbunshu, 2021 It is important to enhance the safety of the railway passengers on board in the event of a collision accident. The railway vehicle standard in European countries and the U.S. set the framework for structural crashworthiness design.
Kazuma NAKAI +3 more
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Developing accident prediction model for railway level crossings [PDF]
Safety Science, 2018 Abstract Railway level crossing (LX) safety continues to be one of the most critical issues for railways, despite an ever-increasing focus on improving design and application practices. Accidents at European LXs account for about one-third of the entire railway accidents and result in more than 300 deaths every year in Europe.
Ci Liang +3 more
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MODELLING THE RANKING OF LITHUANIAN RAILWAYS LEVEL CROSSING BY SAFETY LEVEL [PDF]
Transport Problems, 2017 The article describes the assessment of safety of Lithuanian Railways level crossing. The statistical analysis of the railway accidents in Lithuania and abroad in recent years has shown that about 30% of all transport accidents in railway occur at ...
Gintautas BUREIKA +2 more
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Nihon Kikai Gakkai ronbunshu, 2021 The crash safety structure of the railway vehicles is important as one of the safety measures against the train crews and the passengers in the event of a collision accident.
Tomohiro OKINO +3 more
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