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Steve Laffey Railroad Safety Specialist

Illinois Commerce Commission

[email protected]

Fort Worth, Texas November 2013


1. International Benchmarking & Best Practices

2. SELCAT 3. ELCF 4. RESTRAIL 5. ILCAD 6. GLXS


Data Item 2010 Estimate Rate Comparative MeasuresLevel Crossings (Laffey) 521,000 0.71 Rail Fatalities per Million PopulationRail Route Km (Laffey) 1,315,587 3.72 Rail Fatalities per 1,000 Route KmRail Fatalities (Laffey) 4,900 9.40 Rail Fatalities per 1,000 Level Crossings

Road Km (World Bank) 22,783,287 9.70 Road Fatalities per 1,000 Route KmRoad Fatalities (World Bank) 221,000 32.16 Road Fatalities per Million Population

Population 6,871,086,442Labor Force 3,219,860,246

Who Really Knows?

Data: International Union of Railways European Railway Association USA – Federal Railroad Administration Canada – Transport Canada World Bank, CIA, Janes



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Fatalities Serious Injuries

From Presentation by Vojtech Eksler @ London 2012

Level crossing users represent 28% of railway fatalities and 1% of road fatalities. Approximately 600 incidents annually with

300 to 400 fatalities.

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Huge Variance in Risk Across European Countries [email protected]

ERA – Fatalities as a Rate


FRA 2012 Annual Bulletin

•What do you Measure? Incidents, Fatalities, Weighted Fatalities? •How to Normalize the Data and Measure Fairly? •How to find the Differences that Count? •Are Differences due to Who they are, Where they are at, or What they Do? •Freight, commuter, urban, national?



Web portal creation of over 200 docsStructured overview of 79 level crossing risk projectsComparison of the existing level crossing risk of 13 countriesAnalysis of level crossing in 8 SELCAT countriesDevelopment of a generic functional level crossing modelA structured overview of 40 projects dealing with the application of advanced level crossing technology for level crossing risk reductionRecommendations on the promotion of awareness of level crossing usersProposal for a future level crossing safety system involving advanced technologyOverview of worldwide approaches of level crossing risk evaluation methodsAppropriate scaling factors for the comparison of level crossing accident statisticsOverview of cost benefit analysis methodologiesPreparation and publication of a proposed European Strategy for the reduction of risk at Road/Rail interface

http://ec.europa.eu/research/transport/projects/items/selcat_en.htm


•Informal group of rail and highway safety professionals from many European countries. •Exchange information and share experiences and lessons for improving the management of level crossings. •Since Feb 2005; meet every 6 months or so.

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http://www.restrail.eu/


Year Date # Location Host1990 10/31 to 11/3 1 Knoxville, TN University of Tennesee1992 12/8 to 12/10 2 Knoxville, TN University of Tennesee1994 10/24 to 10/26 3 Knoxville, TN University of Tennesee1996 10/8 to 10/10 4 Knoxville, TN University of Tennesee1998 10/20 to 10/22 5 Knoxville, TN University of Tennesee2000 10/17 to 10/19 6 Knoxville, TN University of Tennesee2002 2/20 to 2/21 7 Melbourne, Australia Monash University2004 4/13 to 4/16 8 Sheffield, England RSSB2006 9/10 to 9/13 9 Montreal, Canada D2006 & Transport Canada2008 6/24 to 6/26 10 Paris, France UIC & RFF2010 10/26 to 10/29 11 Tokyo, Japan JR East2012 10/7 to 10/12 12 London, England RSSB & Network Rail2014 8/3 to 8/8 13 Urbana-Champaign, IL University of Illinois


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International Topics: 2002 - 2012


Crossing Surface / Track Design Education Programs That Work Emergency Response Funding Big Ticket Projects Human Behavior Enforcement New Technology Program Evaluation Public Advocacy Success Stories Trespass & Suicide

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