Citation

Austin J, Griffin D, Sadler J, Kit O. Proc. Inst. Civ. Eng. Transp. 2018; 171(2): 115-124.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2018, Institution of Civil Engineers, Publisher ICE Publishing)

DOI

10.1680/jtran.16.00027

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

Researchers from the University of Southampton have collaborated with the rail industry's independent safety body RSSB on a pilot project for a geospatial risk model. The aim was to use the model to analyse and map derailments, suicides and slip, trip and fall risks across the UK rail network, initially in the Wessex region. The research has been extended to incorporate the impact of historic and real-time environmental data on rail risk. This paper presents a detailed description of the investigations, the resulting methodology and a prototype toolkit. The toolkit incorporates environmental conditions combined with rail incident data to help model and predict increased risk in real time.

Language: en

Keywords

Accident prevention; England; Risk assessment; United Kingdom; prediction; Environment; probability; Risks; Railroad transportation; environmental conditions; Environmental conditions; Environmental data; environmental risk; Environmental risks; Probability analysis; Rail infrastructure; Railway system; Railway systems; railway transport; Risk & probability analysis; transportation infrastructure; transportation safety; University of Southampton; Wessex