DOMAINS OF RAILWAY TRAFFIC IN THE CZECH REPUBLIC, WHICH NEED THE SAFETY IMPROVEMENT

Authors

  • Dana Procházková Czech Technical University in Prague, Faculty of Transportation Sciences, Praha, Czech Republic
  • Jan Procházka Czech Technical University in Prague, Faculty of Transportation Sciences, Praha, Czech Republic
  • Tomáš Kertis Czech Technical University in Prague, Faculty of Transportation Sciences, Praha, Czech Republic

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.14311/APP.2017.11.0053

Keywords:

railway, railway accident, safety, security, criticality, railway accident causes

Abstract

The paper analyses the railway accidents sources in the Czech Republic on the basis of knowledge on complex system behaviour. It derives seven categories of sources of railway accidents. The individual categories include the accident sources from the same field domain. These domains are: technical related to rail traffic vehicles; technical related to rail infrastructure and railway station; railway operation control – organizational causes; railway operation control – cyber causes; control of rail traffic vehicles; attack on the train; domain legislative and other. The results show that for railway traffic safety improvement, it is necessary to pay attention to all categories, and especially to these that lead to organizational accidents origination.

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Published

2017-08-28

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Vol. 11 (2017): Modernization of Railway - IRICoN 2017

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