Title: Intelligent Transport System to Improve Safety at Level Crossing
Abstract: There has been a continued effort to reduce collisions at level crossings by improving warning infrastructure, placing steel mesh nets at rail-road crossings, etc. Some of the major factors contributing to rail-road crossing accidents, include, lack of awareness of an approaching train, inappropriate driver behaviour, insufficient sight clearance for train visibility, alcohol/drugs and so on. As the technologies have advanced significantly, it is now possible to implement a more efficient and effective approach to prevent or even eliminate accidents/collisions at road/rail crossing by providing sufficient information to motorists and/or train drivers before the intersection. Existing technologies, such as Global Positioning System (GPS), Satellite, etc, can be employed to establish communication between train and road vehicles and exchange information to prevent/eliminate rail-road crossing accidents. More recently, the development of the Dedicated Short Range Communication (DSRC) standard has paved the way to implement a wireless ad-hoc network, which can be used for vehicle-tovehicle (V2V) and vehicles-to-infrastructure (V2I) communication to facilitate the development of intelligent transport system (ITS) to improve safety at level crossings. This paper presents a multi-million dollar Government and industry funded project, which aims at addressing the new technology level crossing safety management recommendations of Federal and State Governments of Australia. It will focus on the development of an intelligent platform that will facilitate communication among vehicles to improve safety at level crossing.
Publication Year: 2010
Publication Date: 2010-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
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