Abstract
Nowadays, railway operation is characterized by increasingly high speed and large transport capacity. Safety is the core issue in railway operation, and as witnessed by accident/incident statistics, railway level crossing (LX) safety is one of the most critical points in railways. In the present paper, the causal reasoning analysis of LX accidents is carried out based on Bayesian risk model. The causal reasoning analysis aims to investigate various influential factors which may cause LX accidents, and quantify the contribution of these factors so as to identify the crucial factors which contribute most to the accidents at LXs. A detailed statistical analysis is firstly carried out based on the accident/incident data. Then, a Bayesian risk model is established according to the causal relationships and statistical results. Based on the Bayesian risk model, the prediction of LX accident can be made through forward inference. Moreover, accident cause identification and influential factor evaluation can be performed through reverse inference. The main outputs of our study allow for providing improvement measures to reduce risk and lessen consequences related to LX accidents.
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This work has been conducted in the framework of “MORIPAN project: MOdèle de RIsque pour les PAssages à Niveau” within the Railenium Technological Research Institute, in partnership with the National Society of French Railway Networks (SNCF Réseau) and the French Institute of Science and Technology for Transport, Development and Networks (IFSTTAR).
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Liang, C., Ghazel, M., Cazier, O., Bouillaut, L., El-Koursi, EM. (2017). Bayesian Network Modeling Applied on Railway Level Crossing Safety. In: Fantechi, A., Lecomte, T., Romanovsky, A. (eds) Reliability, Safety, and Security of Railway Systems. Modelling, Analysis, Verification, and Certification. RSSRail 2017. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10598. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-68499-4_8
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