An evaluation of four types of railway pedestrian crossing safety intervention

Lobb, Brenda; Harré, Niki; Terry, Nicola

doi:10.1016/s0001-4575(02)00026-x

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“…Moreover, students were able to apply this knowledge to explain the repercussions for someone acting dangerously on or near the railway tracks and in a station. The findings from both evaluations are in line with the published evidence [35,36] but also suggested the children's knowledge of railway safety and their subsequent behaviour was heavily influenced by the actions observed in the adults around them. For this reason, education outside of schools also plays an important role in communications the safely message.…”

Section: Results and Main Conclusion Of The Field Studiessupporting

confidence: 85%

Lessons learned from the collaborative European project RESTRAIL: REduction of suicides and trespasses on RAILway property

Havârneanu

Bonneau

Colliard

2016

Eur. Transp. Res. Rev.

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Background RESTRAIL was a three year EU FP7 research project which aimed to help reduce the occurrence of suicides and trespasses on railway property and the costly service disruption caused by these events. The project was coordinated by the International Union of Railways (UIC) and provided the rail industry and researchers worldwide with an analysis of the most cost-effective prevention and mitigation measures. The goal of this paper is to inform the railway and scientific community about the successful completion of the project and to present an overview of the main results and key innovations. Method The project covered five relevant issues which significantly contributed to improve the prevention of railway suicide and trespass, and to mitigate their consequences: (1) collection and analysis of data related to railway suicides and trespassing accidents and information about preventative strategies; (2) assessment of preventive measures to reduce railway suicide and trespass; (3) assessment of measures to mitigate the consequences; (4) pilot tests to evaluate some promising measures on the field; and (5) practical recommendations and guidelines. Results The main project outcomes included: an integrated data analysis on railway suicide and trespass, a list of 25 recommended measures, 11 field tests which provided new pieces of evidence for the effectiveness of different measures, and a free online toolbox for decision-makers. Discussion These achievements are discussed in relation to the ongoing need of practical and exploitable results from EU-funded research projects, since the scientific and applied outcomes of RESTRAIL are an example of good practice for the benefit of the entire railway community and society.

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confidence: 85%

Lessons learned from the collaborative European project RESTRAIL: REduction of suicides and trespasses on RAILway property

Havârneanu

Bonneau

Colliard

2016

Eur. Transp. Res. Rev.

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“…[4,5,[12][13][14][15][16][17] A previous study from our region also reported a peak number of accidents during commuting hours. [18] Thirty-six cases (81%) were brought to the emergency department within 30 min.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…[3] Alcohol intake is common in train accidents. [1,5,7,13,15,17,23,25] and intoxication is related with a mortality rate of 80%. [15] Although the frequency of alcohol intoxication was low in our study, with a rate of 4.5%, likely as a result of the low alcohol consumption in our population, among the 7 deaths, 2 of them were intoxicated (28%).…”

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confidence: 99%

10 year evaluation of train accidents

Akkaş¹,

Ay²,

Aksu³

et al. 2011

Ulus Travma Acil Cerrahi Derg

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“…Instead of investigating the origins of unsafe crossing, studies often focus on providing frequencies of illegal behaviour or identifying high risk groups of users, and examine only a small number of key variables such as the observed reported efficacy and awareness of various controls (Basacik et al, 2012, Parker, 2002and Stewart et al, 2004 or else the efficacy of education and enforcement campaigns (Lobb et al, 2001, Lobb et al, 2003and Sposato et al, 2006. One study demonstrates pedestrians' likelihood of underestimating the speed of an approaching train as a result of a perception bias (Clark et al, 2013).…”

Section: Pedestrian Behaviour At Lcsmentioning

confidence: 99%