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Application of Innovation and
Technology to reduce the Safety Risk at
Level Crossings and deliver Value for
MoneyName of presenter here
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Summary of our presentation
• Background
• Current situation on Network Rail
• Where are we now – technology and innovation
• Examples of some successes on Network Rail
• Final Summary
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Introduction
• Around 7000 crossings
• Broad types
–Controlled
–Fully automatic
–Passive
• Rights of way date back over 150 years,
• Requirement to be fully fenced.
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Summary of crossing types
Network Rail's Level Crossings
835
793
5131
ControlledAutomaticPassive
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History and Society – how to balance?
• Most LX date from the 19 Century
• Road/rail interface completely changed since then
• Society doesn’t accept accidents
• How do we balance:-
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History and Society – how to balance?
• What do we need to balance?
–Safety risk (direct from system failure),
–Safety risk (indirect from crossing misuse),
–Our reputation as a safe, efficient provider of transport,
–Our legal obligations and……….costs
How do we understand the risks?
What are our challenges?
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Current challenges
• Operating a busy, high speed railway,
• Need to deliver a reliable and safe train service,
• Working within a strict legal and regulatory environment,
• In a society
–Which expects railways to be 100% safe,
–Which wants to find someone to blame,
–Where road users are impatient and will not tolerate delay.
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Understanding the risks
• Railway safety risk model,
• ALCRM,
• Road and crossing user behaviour.
• Abuse and misuse…….a few examples
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Establishing a safety target
• What does society expect of us – 100%,
• What does the government expect – that we have done all that is reasonably practicable,
• Need to understand where we are now,
• Need to understand how changes will alter the risk,
• Within a need to be financially efficient,
• “What is safe enough?”
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Need clear strategies and policies
• Clear safety policy
• Clear technology policy
• Clear asset policy
We can
• Eliminate
• Educate
• Enforce
• Enhance and engineer
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LX Technology
• Level Crossing Technology Strategy
– Defining priorities aligned with policy
– Clarity of Vision
– Sharing with suppliers and stakeholders
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LX Technology
• Value for Money
– Understanding the cost centres associated with the delivery of level crossings
– Identifying where the opportunities for new technology exists
– Identifying problems where Innovation is required
– Developing output based requirement specifications
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MCB CCTV LXEU Crossing Diagram
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LX Technology
• Innovation
– A structured process to solving identified problems
– Think, Explore, Prove, Do
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LX Technology
• Innovation
– Process applied to User Worked Crossings
– Resulted in Sudbury GPS trial
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GPS Train Location – SB Equipment• PC using Internet can show map display or a basic line schematic
• Consulted when answering telephone to give permission to cross
• Basic Line Schematic will show eta at a crossing at line speed
• Coloured RED as warning if eta is 4 min or less
• Cant show you the real thing yet…. But not dissimilar to this
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MannedControlledBarriers-Obstacle DetectionGraduates August 2012
Brian Mulvana
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Honeywell Radar Equipment
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The low Level Gap
Up to 500mm Low Level Gap
Main Beam 500mm Above Ground
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MCB-OD: LIDAR ApplicationLIDAR guaranteed detection is a 115mm target @ 13m range.
– Which will miss a child’s leg at 13m
– So one LIDAR is set low to detect a prone pedestrian
– The other is set high enough to catch a child’s body
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Reduced cost User Worked Crossing
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Final summary
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Putting it into practice
• Need a Level Crossing Policy,
• Publicity – hearts and minds,
• Agree what is safe enough
• Deliver for the right price
• Cost effective enhancements
• Working with our regulator,
highways agencies and public
can deliver a safe, efficient network
at a cost the country can afford.
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Thank you for your attention