Project Motivations
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Every year,
more than 330 people are killed in more than 1200 accidents
at road-rail level crossings in the European Union
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Human error and
the violation of safety rules by motorists and pedestrians are the
causes in more than 90% of these accidents
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Technological
improvements at level crossings are hindered by high costs
largely driven by high safety requirements
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The lack of an approved
safety methodology to quantify the risk at level crossings
in most European countries and Third targeted countries
Project Description
Project SELCAT (Safer
European Level Crossing Appraisal and Technology) is as a
Co-ordination Action of the European Commission's 6th
Framework Programme involving 19 partners from 9 European
countries and Japan. This project coordinated by the
Institute for Traffic Safety and Automation Engineering
at the Technical University of Braunschweig aims to collect,
structure, cluster, analyse and disseminate existing
world-wide research results and to stimulate new knowledge
exchange in the area of level crossing safety. SELCAT
intends to propose a standard for reporting level crossing
accidents in European countries as well as to set up a
common level crossing accident information system. Beside
the organisation of specific workshops, special conference
sessions, information campaigns will be one of the
instruments for project result dissemination setting up a
thematic Level Crossing web portal.
