THE IMPLEMENTATION OF INTELLIGENT INFORMATION SYSTEMS TO INCREASE SAFETY IN RAIL LEVEL CROSSINGS

Marko Hoić, Ivan Vlašić

Last modified: 2017-02-28

Abstract


On the HŽ-Infrastructure network there are total 1503 level crossings (LC). LC are the intersections of rail and road traffic in the same level. As such they represent a point of high risk on which often comes to extraordinary events with the worst consequences.
The most common accidents are caused by motor vehicles drivers (95%), who are unfortunately the most endangered in railroad accidents.
Raising safety awareness to a new level is carried out with technical and technological solutions and actions that encourage traffic discipline, drivers and pedestrian culture when crossing the rail tracks. To improve traffic information provided to vehicle drivers, it’s necessary to implement intelligent information system (ITS-Intelligent Information Services). Intelligent Information Services is the provision of timely and effective information of dangerous situations (real-time warning systems).
In this work is presented application of the level crossing geo-referenced data, on a HŽ Infrastructure railway network, to ensure accurate and timely information delivery to drivers arriving at the level crossing.

Keywords


level-crossing, geo-referenced data, improve safety, HŽ-Infrastructure

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