منابع مشابه
Safety at Level Crossings
Every year, more than 400 people are killed in over 1200 accidents at road-rail level crossings in the European Union. Together with tunnels and specific road black spots, level crossings (LC) have been identified as being a particular weak point in road infrastructure, seriously jeopardizing road safety. Safety at LC is a single part of a wider picture of transport safety within the whole tran...
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Railway level crossings are amongst the most complex of road safety control systems, due to the conflicts between road vehicles and rail infrastructure, trains and train operations. Driver behaviour at railway crossings is the major collision factor. The main objective of the present paper was to evaluate the existing conventional warning devices in relation to driver behaviour. The common conv...
متن کاملA video-based object detection system for improving safety at level crossings
Improving transport users’ safety is one of the main priorities of research into transport system attractiveness. Level crossings are one of the most critical weak point involving road and rail users’ infrastructure. They have become increasingly dangerous and unsafe due to road and railway users’ behavior. Furthermore, rail and highway safety professionals from several countries must deal with...
متن کاملEvaluation of Pedestrian Safety at Midblock Crossings, Porto Alegre, Brazil
pedestrians and to analyze pedestrian safety at crossings. The main objective of this paper is to present the development of a method to evaluate the potential risk of pedestrian crashes at midblock crossings, consistent with the realities of developing countries. The method comprises the identification of high-frequency crash locations that involve pedestrians, the selection of factors associa...
متن کاملWhy has safety improved at rail-highway grade crossings?
The number of collisions and fatalities at rail-highway intersections in the United States has declined significantly over the past 30 years, despite considerable increases in the volume of rail and highway traffic. This article disaggregates the improvement into its constituent causes. Negative binomial regressions are conducted on a pooled data set for 49 states from 1975 to 2001. The analysi...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: The Open Transportation Journal
سال: 2011
ISSN: 1874-4478
DOI: 10.2174/1874447801105010021