Integrated tracking of the parameters of rail infrastructure facilities, railway rolling stock and motor transport intending to ensure traffi c safety in the level-crossing
Annotation:
Authors of the article analyze the problem of procuring the traffi c safety of rolling
stock mobile units and vehicles in points of motor road and railroad intersections in
one level (in the level-crossings). This problem is solved neither in Russia nor in
foreign countries: a signifi cant number of accidents occur exactly in level-crossings.
Any technical solutions currently known consider the solution of the traffic
safety problem in level-crossings pointwise, there is no integrated approach and
elaborations in this direction. The article proposes to consider a level-crossing as a
complex technical system, in which it is necessary to provide technical diagnosis
and health monitoring of all railway infrastructure objects and traffi c participants
to create an integrated system of procuring the traffi c safety in level-crossings. The
data transfer between infrastructure facilities, rail and road transport should be
reciprocal, not one-sided, – this is the concept of fully-connected health monitoring!
It is suggested not to «accumulate in the archives» the results of monitoring, but
to use them as effectively as possible for a positive impact on the traffi c situation:
to transmit data both to the on-board systems of traction railway rolling stock
and to on-board vehicle systems, including equipping the level-crossings with
additional information systems to increase the vigilance of drivers and reduce
the impact of the human factor. In addition, the article proposes some technical
solutions for the implementation of the concept of fully-connected health monitoring
of infrastructure facilities and rolling stock mobile units in the level-crossings.
Key words:
level-crossing; infrastructure; health monitoring; railway automation; fully-connected health monitoring; level-crossing 3.0