The Safety Level of Railway Infrastructure and Its Correlation with the Cost of Preventive and Mitigation Measures [PDF]
International Journal of Railway Research, 2014 This paper develops a methodology which allows the correlation between the cost which is required for the application of preventive and mitigation measures dealing with accidents which occur within a railway system and the improvement of the level of ...
A-M. Ioannidou, C. Pyrgidis
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Survey-based Impact of Influencing Parameters on Level Crossings Safety
Promet (Zagreb), 2016 Level crossing (LC) accidents are a significant safety challenge worldwide and for that reason they have been subject of numerous research activities. Joint conclusion is that human behaviour is the main cause of accidents. This study examines how and to
Martin Starčević +2 more
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Safety and risk analysis at railway crossings of north-south Addis Ababa light rail [PDF]
Smart and Resilient Transportation, 2021 Purpose – Railway-level crossings (RLCs) are the point of intersection between rail and road users and are therefore hotpots of road-rail user conflict and catastrophic collisions. The purpose of this study is to assess the risks associated with RLCs and
Jackson Sekasi, Habeeb Solihu
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Getting the Attention of Drivers Back on Passive Railway Level Crossings : Evaluation of Advanced Flashing Lights [PDF]
, 2019 Improving safety at railway level crossings remains a priority for the rail industry internationally, as they remain a significant hazard. A high proportion of collisions occur at passive level crossings, because of their high prevalence and their lower ...
Watling, Christopher N. +4 more
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Investigation of Traffic Safety Situation at the Level Crossings in Lithuania
The Baltic Journal of Road and Bridge Engineering, 2013 Traffic safety assurance is the main task on roads as well as railways. At the level crossings both infrastructures cross each other. Therefore the problem of assuring the traffic safety at the level crossings remains permanently actual and is often ...
Inesa Gailiene +2 more
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Наука и техника, 2021 Road traffic accidents of vehicles with a rolling stock of railways lead to the most serious consequences. Many level crossings are places of long delays of vehicles both before and after the traffic. In this case and in many others, the intersections of
D. V. Kapskiy +4 more
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Low-cost railway level crossings - breaking down the barriers [PDF]
, 2014 Level crossing risk continues to be a significant safety concern for the security of rail operations around the world. Over the last decade or so, a third of railway related fatalities occurred as a direct result of collisions between road and rail ...
C Wullems (9852404) +5 more
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Assessment of the accident rate coefficient at pedestrian railway crossings
Transport TechnologiesThe object of the study is pedestrian railway crossings, which are specially designed pedestrian paths across railway tracks intended to ensure the safe passage of pedestrians over railway infrastructure, including areas outside of official level ...
Julia Lesiv, Vitalii Kovalchuk
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Video analytics for the detection of near-miss incidents at railway level crossings and signal passed at danger events [PDF]
, 2017 Railway collisions remain a significant safety and financial concern for the Australian railway industry. Collecting data about events which could potentially lead to collisions helps to better understand the causal factors of railway collisions. In this
Aminmansour, Sina
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Analysis and Optimization of the Causes of Cracks in the Pavement of Highway and Railway Intersections [PDF]
E3S Web of ConferencesFirstly, an in-depth analysis is conducted on the principle of crack formation in the pavement panel of highway and railway level crossings and the reasons for cracks under load. Then, based on the characteristics of crack formation in the pavement panel,
Huang Xingqi +3 more
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