Enhancing safety at Central Queensland level crossings through baseline condition assessment and upgrade efficiency

Aurizon is continuing to seek to improve the safety of public and private level crossings across the Central Queensland Coal Network, through a multi-pronged attack to prevent level crossing incidents. Aurizon partnered with AECOM to undertake a baseline condition assessment and to develop an upgrade scope of all private level crossings across the network. As part of the project significant improvements to the data collection and identification of infrastructure improvements were achieved by the combined project team through the development of an electronic data collection form and the development of a condition based assessment guideline. The purpose of the project along with other baseline condition assessments and the ongoing analysis of the information collected is to provide a robust assessment of the existing condition of all level crossings in the Central Queensland Coal Network, produce a scope of improvements to enhance safety at the crossings, and to produce a robust method for assessing the network wide safety of all level crossings over time. The existing condition and identified improvements allow Aurizon to clearly define their level crossing assets, prioritise a program of capital and maintenance works for level crossings, and inform the key restrictions and responsibilities to be included in interface agreements with the road authorities and users of private crossings.

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• Authors:
  • Livingston J
  • Lawton S
• Conference:
  • CORE 2014, Rail transport for a vital economy, conference on railway engineering, Adelaide, South Australia, 5-7 May 2014
• Publication Date: 2014-5

Media Info

• Pagination: 9p. ; PDF
• Monograph Title: Rail transport for a vital economy: CORE 2014: conference on railway engineering, 5-7 May 2014, Adelaide, South Australia

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Data collection; Railroad grade crossings; Safety
• ATRI Terms: Data collection; Level crossing; Safety
• Subject Areas: Railroads; Safety and Human Factors;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01545194
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: ARRB
• Files: ATRI
• Created Date: Nov 25 2014 10:19AM