Assessing Safety and Infrastructure Design at Railway Level Crossings Through Microsimulation Analysis

Future Transportation, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: 5(1), P. 24 - 24

Published: March 1, 2025

The European Union (EU) is paving the way toward “Vision Zero”, a future goal of eliminating road fatalities and severe injuries. Railway level crossings are critical safety hotspots where rail traffic intersect present unique challenge in balancing both users while ensuring efficient flow. Collisions at these account for significant proportion railway-related EU, underscoring need targeted interventions. This article explores impact signal preemption strategies on operational performance railway through microsimulation analysis. Using VISSIM, crossing its adjacent intersection were modeled under existing alternative scenarios. strategy was designed to clear vehicles from area before train arrivals, reducing conflict risks optimizing Key findings reveal that proposed significantly reduces queue lengths within zones, mitigating vehicle spillback enhancing efficiency. analysis highlights importance integrating operations with systems, particularly urban areas limited storage capacity.

Language: Английский

Improving Reliability of Safety Countermeasure Evaluation at Highway-Rail Grade Crossings Through Aleatoric Uncertainty Modeling with Machine Learning Techniques

Reliability Engineering & System Safety, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: unknown, P. 111082 - 111082

Published: March 1, 2025

Language: Английский