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Application of Innovation and

Technology to reduce the Safety Risk at

Level Crossings and deliver Value for

MoneyName of presenter here

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Summary of our presentation

• Background

• Current situation on Network Rail

• Where are we now – technology and innovation

• Examples of some successes on Network Rail

• Final Summary

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Introduction

• Around 7000 crossings

• Broad types

–Controlled

–Fully automatic

–Passive

• Rights of way date back over 150 years,

• Requirement to be fully fenced.

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Summary of crossing types

Network Rail's Level Crossings

835

793

5131

ControlledAutomaticPassive

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History and Society – how to balance?

• Most LX date from the 19 Century

• Road/rail interface completely changed since then

• Society doesn’t accept accidents

• How do we balance:-

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History and Society – how to balance?

• What do we need to balance?

–Safety risk (direct from system failure),

–Safety risk (indirect from crossing misuse),

–Our reputation as a safe, efficient provider of transport,

–Our legal obligations and……….costs

How do we understand the risks?

What are our challenges?

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Current challenges

• Operating a busy, high speed railway,

• Need to deliver a reliable and safe train service,

• Working within a strict legal and regulatory environment,

• In a society

–Which expects railways to be 100% safe,

–Which wants to find someone to blame,

–Where road users are impatient and will not tolerate delay.

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Understanding the risks

• Railway safety risk model,

• ALCRM,

• Road and crossing user behaviour.

• Abuse and misuse…….a few examples

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Establishing a safety target

• What does society expect of us – 100%,

• What does the government expect – that we have done all that is reasonably practicable,

• Need to understand where we are now,

• Need to understand how changes will alter the risk,

• Within a need to be financially efficient,

• “What is safe enough?”

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Need clear strategies and policies

• Clear safety policy

• Clear technology policy

• Clear asset policy

We can

• Eliminate

• Educate

• Enforce

• Enhance and engineer

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LX Technology

• Level Crossing Technology Strategy

– Defining priorities aligned with policy

– Clarity of Vision

– Sharing with suppliers and stakeholders

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LX Technology

• Value for Money

– Understanding the cost centres associated with the delivery of level crossings

– Identifying where the opportunities for new technology exists

– Identifying problems where Innovation is required

– Developing output based requirement specifications

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MCB CCTV LXEU Crossing Diagram

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LX Technology

• Innovation

– A structured process to solving identified problems

– Think, Explore, Prove, Do

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LX Technology

• Innovation

– Process applied to User Worked Crossings

– Resulted in Sudbury GPS trial

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GPS Train Location – SB Equipment• PC using Internet can show map display or a basic line schematic

• Consulted when answering telephone to give permission to cross

• Basic Line Schematic will show eta at a crossing at line speed

• Coloured RED as warning if eta is 4 min or less

• Cant show you the real thing yet…. But not dissimilar to this

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MannedControlledBarriers-Obstacle DetectionGraduates August 2012

Brian Mulvana

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Honeywell Radar Equipment

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The low Level Gap

Up to 500mm Low Level Gap

Main Beam 500mm Above Ground

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MCB-OD: LIDAR ApplicationLIDAR guaranteed detection is a 115mm target @ 13m range.

– Which will miss a child’s leg at 13m

– So one LIDAR is set low to detect a prone pedestrian

– The other is set high enough to catch a child’s body

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Reduced cost User Worked Crossing

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Final summary

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Putting it into practice

• Need a Level Crossing Policy,

• Publicity – hearts and minds,

• Agree what is safe enough

• Deliver for the right price

• Cost effective enhancements

• Working with our regulator,

highways agencies and public

can deliver a safe, efficient network

at a cost the country can afford.

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Thank you for your attention