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Trans. Planning Journal
| Title | Risk Treatment of Railroad Crossings for Taiwan Railways Administration –A Case Study on Obstacle Detection System |
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| Author | Tu-Huan Lin, Chian-Shan Suen, Jyh-Cherng Jong, Chi-Kang Lee, Kai-Kuo Chang and Hsi-Jen Wu |
| Summary | Risk management (RM) is generally adopted by railway operators to improve the degree of safety. The process of RM typically involves risk identification, analysis, evaluation, and treatment. The research follows previous studies to develop a practical procedure for risk treatment. Through the procedure, railway operators can apply adequate measures to decrease the risk of unacceptable hazards. The hazard, collision between trains and vehicles at railroad crossings, was selected to be a case study to explain the procedure of risk treatment in this study. The measure, installing obstacle detection systems (ODS), was also selected to demonstrate how to estimate its feasibility, cost, benefit, and negative utilities. The major findings are the followings: (1) The ODS is one of the feasible measures to decrease the risk of the hazard. (2) The B/C ratio of installing ODS at all type-III grade crossings is only 5.82% (3) As the above condition, the risk of collision between trains and vehicles at railroad crossings is still unacceptable. We suggest that railway operators should adopt additional strategies to decrease the risk until it becomes tolerable. |
| Vol. | 43 |
| No. | 1 |
| Page | 63 |
| Year | 2014 |
| Month | 3 |
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