Psychological Analysis of Railway Crossing Accident Occurrence (1)

C-MARC CURTIN - MONASH ACCIDENT RESEARCH CENTRE Pedestrian non-compliance at railway level crossing gates

A Quantitative Study of the Occurrence of a Railway Accident Based on Belief Functions

In the field of railway systems, there is a great interest to include the human factor in the risk analysis process. Indeed, a great number of accidents are consider to be triggered by the human factors interacting in the situation. Several attempts have been made to include human factors in safety analysis, but they generally attack the problem in a qualitative way. The choice of qualitative m...

[On the railway accident in Kastel-Stari].

Analyzing heterogeneous accident data from the perspective of accident occurrence.

Clustering and classification approaches have been commonly applied in reducing the heterogeneity in accident data. As part of an effort to understand the features of the heterogeneity, this study assessed accident data from the perspective of accident occurrences. Using the rule-based classification method, rough set theory, rules were derived which consisted of indispensable factors to certai...

Study of Drivers’ Behaviour at a Passive Railway Crossing

Problem: The number of killed and injured persons in incidents at railway level crossings is generally increasing on the Serbian Railways, particularly at passive crossings. In this paper we researched the direct behaviour of road traffic participants at a conventional railway passive crossing. Method: Direct observational study of drivers’ behaviour at a level crossing. Results: Sixty-one road...