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International Railway Safety Conference 2007 30th September – 6th October, 2007, Goa

SELCAT - Concept of Level Crossing Safety Performance Monitoring Roman Slovak, Technical University of Braunschweig. Safer European Level Crossing Appraisal and Technology. International Railway Safety Conference 2007 30th September – 6th October, 2007, Goa. SELCAT project motivation.

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International Railway Safety Conference 2007 30th September – 6th October, 2007, Goa

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  1. SELCAT - Concept of Level Crossing Safety Performance MonitoringRoman Slovak, Technical University of Braunschweig Safer European Level Crossing Appraisal and Technology International Railway Safety Conference 2007 30th September – 6th October, 2007, Goa

  2. SELCAT project motivation • Level crossings are connected with the highest human fatality rate of European Railways (50-80% of all railway fatalities) • Not adequate human behaviour is main reason (>90%) for the accident causes without involvement of the safety system failure • High safety requirements on the level crossing safety system in many European countries are connected with high costs hindering technological upgrade of existing systems • Relatively small number of fatalities in comparison to other road transport accidents results in insufficient human danger awareness and lack of legislative regulations to stimulate the drivers discipline

  3. Outline Project aims Consortium Structure of the safety performance database Collection of statistics First analysis results Conclusions

  4. Aims and objectives of SELCAT (1) To provide a knowledge base for the improvement of the level crossing safety by an analysis of results of safety-related projects from FP5 and FP6 with regard to Railway and Road Transport To provide an overview of existing and planned level crossing research and improvement activities in 15 countries from Europe, Asia and Africa To analyse incident and accident data and databases related to worldwide level crossings To disseminate the results of in SELCAT (Workshops, Web portal)

  5. Aims and objectives of SELCAT (2) To set up a common level crossing accident information system To propose a standard for reporting level crossing accidents in European countries To examine the potential for existing and new technologies to improve the safety and the performance of level crossing systems. To investigate the applicability of available risk and cost-benefit analysis methods for the classification of technological solutions for the safer interface of rail and road traffic at level crossings

  6. SELCAT Work packages and their interdependancies Representation : WP 5 Meetings , Project coordination , ressources and Manage - Information results exchange ment activities information WP 1 Characteristics , exchange Level Statistics , crossing Requirements , information Standards appraisal input information output Risk , , FP 5 , FP 6 , Safety , , WP 4 EU Level Workshops , WP 3 Performance , , Dissemi - Crossing Conferences , Methodology Cost - Benefit Research and Web portal nation Analysis statistics Methods WP 2 Technical & Level legislative Crossing solutions , Regulations technology

  7. SELCAT Partners and their roles • Universities: • TUBS - Technical University of Braunschweig, Institute for Traffic Safety and Automation Engineering (D) • DITS – University of Rome, Department of Department of Hydraulic, Transport and Road (I) • UNIZA – University of Zilina, Department of Control & Information Systems (SK) • UB – University of Birmingham (GB) • VTU – University of Transport Sofia (BG) • Railway and Road Research Institutes: • INRETS - French National Institute for Transportation Research (F) • RSSB – Railway Safety and Standards Board (GB) • CNTK - Railway Scientific and Technical Centre (PL) • DLR – German Aerospace Center, Institute of Transportation Systems (D) • VTT - Technical Research Centre of Finland (SF) • MULT – Applied signal processing and telecoms research centre (B) • RTRI - Railway Technical Research Institute (JP) • Road and Railway Organisations • UIC – International Union of Railways (F) • ADAC – General German Automobile Association (D) • VPE - Railway allocation office (H) • Infrastructure Managers: • DB – German railways (D) • NR – Network Rail (GB) • RFI – Italian national railways (I) • NRIC – Bulgarian national railways (BG)

  8. SELCAT TTC - an world extension of SELCAT Universities: EMI - Engineers' Mohammadia school (MA) Railway and Road Research Institutes: VNIIZhT- All-Russian Railway Research Institute (RUS) CARS - China Academy of Railway Science (CN) Railway companies: RDSO - Indian Railways, Research, Designs & Standards organisation (IN) ONCF – Railways of Morocco, National office of the Railroads (MA)

  9. Coordination action‘s expectations Structured collection of the knowledge provided by SELCAT partners structured storage of the knowledge and its classification structured access to the knowledge Need of a suitable structure of the Knowledge

  10. Structuring process for the knowledge platform development (web portal)

  11. SELCAT knowledge platform information structure

  12. Structure of the knowledge platform Laws Laws Loops TVP Cameras St. Andrews Cross Plates Operational Processes Operational Processes Signs TrafficLights ATP Barriers Level Crossing Level Crossing Organisation Road User Detection Railway Vehicle Detection Road User Information Railway Vehicle Information Road User Warning Railway Vehicle Warning Road User Protection Railway Vehicle Protection Railway Road

  13. Collection of LC types (country specific) • Functional configuration • Operational conditions (traffic flows, infrastructure conditions, etc.) • Population (country specific) • Pictures • Collection of LC accident statistics (LC type specific) • Fatalities, serious and light injuries • Accident causes (human, technical, etc.) • Definition of basic LC types • Specification according to the ERA draft definition • Association with related national LC types • Accident statistics analysis • Definition of normalization (scaling factors) • Comparative risk evaluation for basic LC types Steps of the Level Crossing Risk appraisal

  14. Knowledge platform Interface for collection of level crossing types

  15. Example of level crossing type classification

  16. Integration of statistics data LC types population (by year) Accident statistics association (fatalities, injuries, causes on road and railway side, etc) Typical traffic conditions LC types costs (acquisition, operation)

  17. Interface for statistics source specification

  18. Interface for input of accident kinds and causes

  19. Example of entered accident statistics for a LC type

  20. Accident statistics visualisation for a particular national LC type

  21. Normalisation of statistics Basic scaling factors Population of the particular level crossing type in the country NLC Length of railway network of the country LRN Train operation volume given in millions of train kilometres VTKM Number of inhabitants per square kilometres of the country Road passenger in million km per year VRKM Number of cars/1000 inhabitants Number of road fatalities Number of railway accidents Population in millions Total number of LC accidents

  22. LC types definition according to European Railway Agency (ERA)

  23. Matching of national LC types with base types

  24. Accident statistics of the category „B“ - passive level crossing 2005

  25. LC accident statistics related to different types and normalisation factors (for 2005)

  26. Graphical representation of level crossing accident analysis results

  27. Normalisation data Composed scaling factors ERA LC safety indicator Other scaling formulas, e.g. Wherby: NLC Population of the particular level crossing type in the country LRN Length of railway network of the country VTKM Train operation volume given in millions of train kilometres VRKM Road passenger in million km per year

  28. Conclusions SELCAT concept of safety performance monitoring aims at: • collection of available LC accident statistics under consideration of national operating conditions • interactive analysis of the statistics by • providing information about the extend of accident damage • and accident causes • offering large number of normalisation factors (predefined, user defined) • visualised by time based charts (LC specific, country specific, EU/NonEU, etc.) • providing input for further SELCAT work • Identification of most critical LC operating conditions • Identification of typical causes of LC accidents • Offering statistical base for application of advanced methods for risk and cost-benefit evaluation • future aim: Level Crossing accident information system allowing collection of accident data including detailed operation conditions and causes

  29. WP2 - Level crossing Type/technology matrix

  30. psn_2006-07-24_Dissertationsvortrag-_1-16_Sl.pot , Seite 31 WP3 - EDSPNmodel for level crossing risk analysis

  31. The 2nd SELCAT workshop „Level Crossing Technology“ November 22-23, 2007 Venue: Marrakech, Morroco, Hotel „Le Tikida Garden“ Agenda: Results of WP1 „Level crossing appraisal“ Results of WP2 „Level crossing Technology“ LC papers presentations

  32. Better Safety at Level Crossings www.levelcrossing.net Roman Slovák+49 531 391 3307r.slovak@tu-bs.de Contact

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