Tram Safety Management--French Experience

Since 2003 in France, the legislation about urban guided transport systems safety has required the estimation and validation of the risks and level of safety for the whole streetcar system including its infrastructure before its design phase and all along its operation. In order to have feedback experience of urban insertion configurations, the French Guided Transport Technical Office (STRMTG), which is a regulating authority, has collected national data on events involving streetcars. A first database was created, using a codification which identifies every type of section in a streetcar line and characterizes its environment, in order to have a national and anonymous view on streetcar events. This database enables the STRMTG to calculate national indicators, which permit identification and analysis specific issues and tendencies, and allows recommendations to be made about streetcars urban insertion as a result. After seven years of database use, some limitations have been detected in the codification. A huge work of re-coding has been made in 2011 and 2012, adapted to a more precise analysis of configurations, to better understand some particular problems. Each step of this process is presented in this paper. The aim of this paper is to present how STRMTG organizes feedback experience of urban insertion configurations and employs national data to improve safety level of streetcar's lines. These tools have been created in order to respond to the rapid development of streetcars lines in France and are adapted to the French context. With all the data collected and the first analysis made, dangerous configurations have been detected, sometimes without solutions. This paper is a way to exchange views about methodology and dangerous configurations.

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• Supplemental Notes:
  • This paper was sponsored by TRB committee AP075 Light Rail Transit.
• Corporate Authors:

  Transportation Research Board

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  Washington, DC  United States  20001
• Authors:
  • Blancheton, Marine
  • Fontaine, Laetitia
• Conference:
  • Transportation Research Board 93rd Annual Meeting
  • Location: Washington DC
  • Date: 2014-1-12 to 2014-1-16
• Date: 2014

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Digital/other
• Features: Figures; Photos; References;
• Pagination: 16p
• Monograph Title: TRB 93rd Annual Meeting Compendium of Papers

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Data collection; Design; Infrastructure; Safety management; Streetcars; Trolley cars
• Geographic Terms: France
• Subject Areas: Design; Public Transportation; Safety and Human Factors; Vehicles and Equipment; I82: Accidents and Transport Infrastructure; I91: Vehicle Design and Safety;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01519132
• Record Type: Publication
• Report/Paper Numbers: 14-3750
• Files: PRP, TRIS, TRB, ATRI
• Created Date: Mar 24 2014 12:01PM