Steve Laffey Railroad Safety Specialist Illinois Commerce Commission.

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1 Steve Laffey Railroad Safety Specialist Illinois Commerce Commission

2 1. International Benchmarking & Best Practices 2. SELCAT 3. ELCF 4. RESTRAIL 5. ILCAD 6. GLXS

3 Data Item 2010 Estimate Rate Comparative Measures Level Crossings (Laffey) 521, Rail Fatalities per Million Population Rail Route Km (Laffey) 1,315, Rail Fatalities per 1,000 Route Km Rail Fatalities (Laffey) 4, Rail Fatalities per 1,000 Level Crossings Road Km (World Bank) 22,783, Road Fatalities per 1,000 Route Km Road Fatalities (World Bank) 221, Road Fatalities per Million Population Population 6,871,086,442 Labor Force 3,219,860,246 Who Really Knows?

4 Data: International Union of Railways European Railway Association USA Federal Railroad Administration Canada Transport Canada World Bank, CIA, Janes

5 Level crossing casualties in the EU Fatalities Serious Injuries Level crossing users represent 28% of railway fatalities and 1% of road fatalities. Approximately 600 incidents annually with 300 to 400 fatalities. From Presentation by Vojtech London 2012

6 ERA Fatalities as a Rate LC user fatalities per million train kilometers 28x UK IT NO SE DK LU DE IE FR ES AT NL BE CZ BG FI LV PL EE SI SK HU PT RO LT EL Huge Variance in Risk Across European Countries vojtech.eksler@era.europa.eu

7 FRA 2012 Annual Bulletin

8 What do you Measure? Incidents, Fatalities, Weighted Fatalities? How to Normalize the Data and Measure Fairly? How to find the Differences that Count? Are Differences due to Who they are, Where they are at, or What they Do? Freight, commuter, urban, national?

9 Web portal creation of over 200 docs Structured overview of 79 level crossing risk projects Comparison of the existing level crossing risk of 13 countries Analysis of level crossing in 8 SELCAT countries Development of a generic functional level crossing model A structured overview of 40 projects dealing with the application of advanced level crossing technology for level crossing risk reduction Recommendations on the promotion of awareness of level crossing users Proposal for a future level crossing safety system involving advanced technology Overview of worldwide approaches of level crossing risk evaluation methods Appropriate scaling factors for the comparison of level crossing accident statistics Overview of cost benefit analysis methodologies Preparation and publication of a proposed European Strategy for the reduction of risk at Road/Rail interface

10 Informal group of rail and highway safety professionals from many European countries. Exchange information and share experiences and lessons for improving the management of level crossings. Since Feb 2005; meet every 6 months or so. alan.davies@rssb.co.uk fonverne@uic.org

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13 Year Date # Location Host /31 to 11/3 1 Knoxville, TN University of Tennesee /8 to 12/10 2 Knoxville, TN University of Tennesee /24 to 10/26 3 Knoxville, TN University of Tennesee /8 to 10/10 4 Knoxville, TN University of Tennesee /20 to 10/22 5 Knoxville, TN University of Tennesee /17 to 10/19 6 Knoxville, TN University of Tennesee /20 to 2/21 7 Melbourne, Australia Monash University /13 to 4/16 8 Sheffield, England RSSB /10 to 9/13 9 Montreal, Canada D2006 & Transport Canada /24 to 6/26 10 Paris, France UIC & RFF /26 to 10/29 11 Tokyo, Japan JR East /7 to 10/12 12 London, England RSSB & Network Rail /3 to 8/8 13 Urbana-Champaign, IL University of Illinois

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16 Crossing Surface / Track Design Education Programs That Work Emergency Response Funding Big Ticket Projects Human Behavior Enforcement New Technology Program Evaluation Public Advocacy Success Stories Trespass & Suicide