Shared Rail Corridor Adjacent Track Accident Risk Analysis - Part 2

Shared or mixed use corridors refer to different types of passenger and freight trains using common infrastructure in one way or another. Different characteristics from different types of operation may result in complicated operating environments. A high priority for any rail system is operating safety, and there are several questions associated with operating passenger and freight trains on shared-use corridors. Adjacent track accidents (ATA) are one of the challenges that has been identified. ATA refers to train accident scenarios where a derailed rail equipment intrudes onto adjacent tracks, disrupting operation and potentially causing a train collision with a train on the adjacent track. Other ATA scenarios include collisions between trains on adjacent tracks (raking), turnouts, and railroad crossings. The main objective of this project is development of a new, quantitative model to calculate the probability of ATAs by identifying the major probability components in the ATA event sequence: initial train derailments, intrusion of derailed rail vehicles, and collisions between a train on an adjacent track with derailed equipment. This project is the continuation of the project titled “Shared Rail Corridor Adjacent Track Accident Risk Analysis (NURail2013-UIUC-R08)”.

• Record URL:
  http://www.nurailcenter.org/research/final_reports/UIUC/NURail2017-UIUC-R18-%20Final_Research_Report.pdf
• Record URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/56461
• Supplemental Notes:
  • This document was sponsored by the U.S. Department of Transportation, University Transportation Centers Program.
• Corporate Authors:

  National University Rail Center (NURail)

  University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, 205 N. Mathews Avenue
  Urbana, IL  United States  61801

  Office of the Assistant Secretary for Research and Technology

  University Transportation Centers Program
  Department of Transportation
  Washington, DC  United States  20590
• Authors:
  • Barkan, Christopher P L
  • Lin, Chen-Yu
• Publication Date: 2020-10-5

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Digital/other
• Features: Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: 30p

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Crash risk forecasting; Derailments; Freight trains; Passenger trains; Railroad crashes; Railroad safety; Railroad tracks; Risk assessment; Transportation corridors
• Subject Areas: Planning and Forecasting; Railroads; Safety and Human Factors;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01754814
• Record Type: Publication
• Report/Paper Numbers: NURail2017-UIUC-R18
• Contract Numbers: DTRT13-G-UTC52 (Grant 2)
• Files: UTC, NTL, TRIS, ATRI, USDOT
• Created Date: Oct 19 2020 10:53AM