04-02-2016, 04:41 PM
INTRODUCTION
Railway is lifeline of India and it is being the cheapest modes of transportation are preferred over all other means of transportation. When we go through the daily newspapers we come across many accidents in railroad railings. Railroad-related accidents are more dangerous than other transportation accidents in terms of severity and death rate etc. Therefore more efforts are necessary for improving safety. Collisions with train are generally catastrophic, in that the destructive forces of a train usually no match for any other type of vehicle. Train collisions form a major catastrophe, as they cause ever damage to life and property. Train collisions occur frequently eluding all the latest technology.
1.1 PROJECT BACKGROUND
Railway safety is a crucial aspect of rail operation the world over. Malfunctions resulting in accidents usually get wide media coverage even when the railway is not at fault and give to rail transport, among the uniformed public, an undeserved image of inefficiency often fueling calls for immediate reforms. This paper is aimed at helping the railway administrations concerned to strengthen their safety culture and develop the monitoring tools required by modern safety management. Railroad intersections are very unique, special, potentially dangerous and yet unavoidable in the World. Here two different entities with entirely different responsibilities, domains, performances come together and converge for a single cause of providing a facility to the road user. During the normal operation also, there is every possibility of accidents occurring even with very little negligence in procedure and the result is of very high risk. The potential for accidents is made higher as the railways control only half the problem. The other half, meanwhile, cannot really be said to be controlled by one entity, as even though traffic rules and road design standards supposedly exist, the movements of road users are not organized and monitored by one specific entity as rigidly as rail movements. The railway systems of Asia and the Pacific are no exception to this. A very high number of these collisions are caused by the negligence, incompetence or incapacity of road vehicle drivers, who by and large operate their vehicles in environments in which safety consciousness is practically non-existent. Since it is the railway which must bear the responsibility for ensuring that it is protected from the transgressions by road users (despite the fact that in many countries the law gives it priority of passage over road users), it is the railway which also has to shoulder most of the financial burden of providing this protection. Similarly, it is the railway, which has most of the responsibility for educating road users on the safe use of its. In the rapidly flourishing country like ours, even though all the latest technologies are there train collisions are occurring frequently. The railway accidents are happening due to the carelessness in manual operations or lack of workers. The other main reasons for the collisions of Train are:
1.TrainDerailment in curves and bends,
2. Train collisions with the Standing Train,
3.Train Accidents
in Slopes,
4.Mis- signaling due to fog or Mist.