Abstract

Abstract: Railway accident prevention and protection are a key a part of a wider picture of transport safety. The rail sector thus needs to improve its knowledge of breaching and suicide, including at grade crossing, so as to figure out suitable responses by analyzing measures already taken in various countries. Governments, the rail industry and road organizations are implementing a spread of countermeasures for several years to enhance railway safety. These actions are substantial and have resulted during a continuing decrease within the number and therefore the severity of accidents. This paper presents existing suitable techniques that are utilized in the preventative measures targeted to scale back railway suicides, breaching and grade crossing casualties. It reports them in terms of their potentiality to effectively minimize accidents, their cost-effectiveness and their incorporation within the railway transport system as a whole.

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