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Railway level crossing safety workshop Jesse Baker 5.3.13 Grand Hyatt Melbourne
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Jesse Baker, Manager, Safety & Systems, Rail Industry Safety and Standards Board (RISSB) delivered this presentation at Rail Safety 2013. For more information on the annual conference, please visit http://www.railsafetyconference.com.au.
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Railway level crossing safety
workshop
Jesse Baker
5.3.13
Grand Hyatt Melbourne
Where roads meet rails
Quantifying the problem
The first level crossing? – the Diolkos
(on the Isthmus of Corinth)
The Isthmus of Corinth
The Isthmus
of Corinth
The Diolkos
The Diolkos
The Diolkos
Ancient Corinth
Evolution of the level crossing
• 2500 years of
stagnation
• Until sometime
in the 1800s
when flagmen
were introduced
• Late 1800s we
saw closable
gates
• Shortly after
that came the
car !
Evolution of the level crossing
Evolution of the level crossing
• By the 1960s
we started to
see
automatic
level
crossings
Level crossings today
• 23,500 locations where roads intersect railway lines
around Australia.
• 100 incidents at level crossings per year
• 37 deaths
