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Article
Railway Accident Prevention and Infrastructure Protection
Author(s)
El-Miloudi El-Koursi and Jean-Luc Bruyelle
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DOI:10.17265/1934-7359/2016.01.010
Affiliation(s)
IFSTTAR (French Institute of Science and Technology for Transport, Development and Networks), Villeneuve 59666, France
ABSTRACT
Railway accident prevention
and protection are a key part of a wider picture of transport safety. The rail
sector thus needs to improve its knowledge of trespassing and suicide,
including at level crossing, in order to work out suitable responses by
analyzing measures already taken in various countries. Governments, the rail
industry and road organizations have been implementing a variety of
countermeasures for many years to improve railway safety. These actions are
substantial and have resulted in a continuing decrease in the number and the
severity of accidents. This paper presents existing suitable techniques that
are used in the preventative measures targeted to reduce railway suicides,
trespassing and level crossing user accidents. It describes them in terms of
their capability to effectively reduce accidents, their cost-effectiveness and
their integration within the railway transport system as a whole.
KEYWORDS
Railways, safety, infrastructure, level crossing, trespassing.
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