Analysis and Evaluation of the Effectiveness of Safety Systems at Railroad Crossings in Poland

Abstract

The number of vehicles on the road is growing every year and each year too many people lose their lives and health on Polish roads. The number of accidents, including at level crossings, is very high. Despite the construction of new, safer roads, the number of collisions continues to grow and about three thousand accident participants die each year. The main causes of accidents are inadequate speed to the prevailing road conditions or regulations, driving under the influence of alcohol and random events. For this reason, the article analyzes the safety at railroad crossings in Poland. In the next stage, an exemplary system improving safety at railroad crossings is presented. The new solution was analysed using a survey. The research results presented may be applicable to other countries.

Impact of information on the number of traffic accidents on the outcome of the forecast

“…2). The problem of traffic safety has been addressed in the following articles (Bartuska et al 2016, Čubranić--DobroDolac et al 2020, Gorzelanczyk, bazela 2021, Gorzelanczyk, Huk 2022, Gorzelanczyk, Tylicki 2023, Gorzelanczyk et al 2020, 2022a, 2022b, 2022c, 2022d, Gorzelanczyk 2023a, 2023b, 2023c, 2023d. A vector autoregression model has also been used to forecast the number of traffic accidents, the drawback of which is the need to have a large number of observations of variables in order to correctly estimate their parameters (wójcik 2014), as well as the autoregression models of moneDero et al (2021) for analyzing the number of fatalities (moneDero et al 2021) and the curve--fit regression models of al-maDani (2018).…”