Steve Laffey Railroad Safety Specialist Illinois Commerce Commission slaffey@icc.illinois.gov
1. International Benchmarking & Best Practices 2. SELCAT 3. ELCF 4. RESTRAIL 5. ILCAD 6. GLXS
Data Item 2010 Estimate Rate Comparative Measures Level Crossings (Laffey) 521,000 0.71 Rail Fatalities per Million Population Rail Route Km (Laffey) 1,315,587 3.72 Rail Fatalities per 1,000 Route Km Rail Fatalities (Laffey) 4,900 9.40 Rail Fatalities per 1,000 Level Crossings Road Km (World Bank) 22,783,287 9.70 Road Fatalities per 1,000 Route Km Road Fatalities (World Bank) 221,000 32.16 Road Fatalities per Million Population Population 6,871,086,442 Labor Force 3,219,860,246 Who Really Knows?
Data: International Union of Railways European Railway Association USA Federal Railroad Administration Canada Transport Canada World Bank, CIA, Janes
Level crossing casualties in the EU Fatalities Serious Injuries 504 483 366 362 380 408 405 292 359 327 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 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 Eksler @ London 2012
ERA Fatalities as a Rate 0.6 0.5 0.4 LC user fatalities per million train kilometers 28x 0.3 0.2 0.1 0.0 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
FRA 2012 Annual Bulletin
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?
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 http://ec.europa.eu/research/transport/projects/items/selcat_en.htm
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
http://www.restrail.eu/
Year Date # Location Host 1990 10/31 to 11/3 1 Knoxville, TN University of Tennesee 1992 12/8 to 12/10 2 Knoxville, TN University of Tennesee 1994 10/24 to 10/26 3 Knoxville, TN University of Tennesee 1996 10/8 to 10/10 4 Knoxville, TN University of Tennesee 1998 10/20 to 10/22 5 Knoxville, TN University of Tennesee 2000 10/17 to 10/19 6 Knoxville, TN University of Tennesee 2002 2/20 to 2/21 7 Melbourne, Australia Monash University 2004 4/13 to 4/16 8 Sheffield, England RSSB 2006 9/10 to 9/13 9 Montreal, Canada D2006 & Transport Canada 2008 6/24 to 6/26 10 Paris, France UIC & RFF 2010 10/26 to 10/29 11 Tokyo, Japan JR East 2012 10/7 to 10/12 12 London, England RSSB & Network Rail 2014 8/3 to 8/8 13 Urbana-Champaign, IL University of Illinois
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