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Development of Rail Safety in Thailand: Level Crossings Safety

Development of Rail Safety in Thailand: Level Crossings Safety. Office of Transport and Traffic Policy and Planning Ministry of Transport June 14 th , 2011. Presentation outline. Background Thailand’s Railways Cabinet’s Resolution Railway Accidents Situation in Thailand

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Development of Rail Safety in Thailand: Level Crossings Safety

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  1. Development of Rail Safety in Thailand: Level Crossings Safety Office of Transport and Traffic Policy and Planning Ministry of Transport June 14th, 2011

  2. Presentation outline • Background • Thailand’s Railways • Cabinet’s Resolution • Railway Accidents Situation in Thailand Amendment of the Railway’ Crossing Establishment of Thailand’s Committee Study and Preparation on Accident Solution Plan for Road-rail Crossing for Long-distance Trains SRT & Aeronautical Radio of Thailand LTD, House of Representatives, Committee on Transportation MOT’s Agency: DOH, DRH

  3. During the reign of King Chulalongkorn (Rama V),a Royal Proclamation pertaining to the construction on the first state railway line in Siam wasissued on March 9, 1891 The office of the Royal State Railways of Siam was first established in October1890.

  4. Existing Infrastructure

  5. Double Track (Long Loop) Logistic Network • Surge Network Capacity from 300 to 800 Train/day • Increase modal share from 2.84 % to 10%

  6. Number of Level crossings in each part of Thailand

  7. Types of Railroad Level Crossings • Level Crossing with Warning Sign • 2. Level Crossing with automatic barrier • 4. Grade Seperation 3. Level Crossing without any sign or barrier

  8. Various Types of Japan’s Railways Level Crossings in Thailand • 674 of Level Crossing with automatic barrier 45 of Level Crossing with Warning Sign 540 ofLevel Crossing without any sign or barrier ( Illegal) 8 988 of Level Crossing with Warning Sign

  9. No. (Time/Person) No. of Accident Injury Fatality Number of Level CrossingAccident(Train-vehicleCrash) 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009

  10. Cabinet’s Resolution • 17 November 2009 : Agreed in principle of rail transport system development and the management of State Railway of Thailand. Emphasis on the train operation should be convenient, fast and safe. • 12 April 2011: Agreed on the plan for rail transport system development 2011-2020, which has the improvement of the train operation and transport with safety and efficiency. More measures safety • 3 May 2011:Agreed on the investment plan of State Railway of Thailand (176,000MB)

  11. Joint Standing Committee on the Application and Problem Solving of Railway-Road Level Crossing Deputy permanent Secretary (President) Director of OTP (Vice President) DOH DOR Bureau Of budget SRT Royal Irrigation Department Department of disaster Prevention and mitigation BKK Governor Department of Local Administration • Duty • Plan for Safety Roadmap in the decades of road safety • supervisethe agencies under theoperation • cooperate the implementation from the government private and public organizations. • monitor and evaluate the implementation of the plan and report to MOT subcommittee on Railway-Road Level Crossing(President : Director of OTP) Duty Improve and prepare measures to control an accident at Railway-Road Level Crossing

  12. Studying and Preparing on Accident Solution Plan for Road-rail Crossing for Long-distance Trains Study Area Northern: BKK – Nakornsawan Northeast:BKK – Nakornratchasima Eastern:BKK – Lamchabang Southern : BKK– Prajuabkirikun Result • problems and solutions of the Railway-Road Level Crossing • Database and data analysis, trends and incidence/ distribution of accident • Managementplanand solve problems 12

  13. Damaged Warning Sign Slope at Level Crossing Junction at Level Crossing Road surface roughness Problems

  14. Level Crossing Accident Situation No. of Accident No. of Fatality No. of Injury พื้นที่ศึกษา จำนวนอุบัติเหตุ/ครั้ง จำนวนผู้เสียชีวิต/ครั้ง จำนวนผู้บาดเจ็บ/ครั้ง N o. 2006 2007 2008

  15. Number of the Level Crossing in the Study Area 15

  16. Projecton improved securityand efficiencyinthetrain operation • Cooperation beteween SRT & Aeronautical Radio of Thailand LTD • Use GPS • Project area – Huahin Phase 1 prototype • Improved security in the train operation With/without level crossing controler • inform condition of railway to driver • Development ofreportingsystems (locate target, calculate the distance) • Use CCTV

  17. Projecton improved securityand efficiencyinthetrain operation Phase 2Extendedperiod Developguidelines ondata integrations and create Multi-Modal Transport. groom the train signaling to the hubstation.

  18. Parliament by Representative , Committee on Transport • Province level : assign subcommittee on the Application and Problem Solving of Railway-Road Level Crossing in provincial level (President: provincial governor). • MOTsignedMOU with MOI. the level of municipality. to discuss about level crossing without signs (Illegal) and get public participation. • OTPcooperates with SRT DOH and DOR to revise and adjust TM:Traffic Movement. Moreover, set up public participation in order to gather opinion about level crossing problems and seek for recommendations

  19. Thank You Q & A

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