Railway level crossing safety workshop Jesse Baker 5.3.13 Grand Hyatt Melbourne
Dec 10, 2014
Railway level crossing safety
workshop
Jesse Baker
5.3.13
Grand Hyatt Melbourne
Where roads meet rails
Quantifying the problem
The first level crossing? – the Diolkos
(on the Isthmus of Corinth)
The Isthmus of Corinth
The Isthmus
of Corinth
The Diolkos
The Diolkos
The Diolkos
Ancient Corinth
Evolution of the level crossing
• 2500 years of
stagnation
• Until sometime
in the 1800s
when flagmen
were introduced
• Late 1800s we
saw closable
gates
• Shortly after
that came the
car !
Evolution of the level crossing
Evolution of the level crossing
• By the 1960s
we started to
see
automatic
level
crossings
Level crossings today
• 23,500 locations where roads intersect railway lines
around Australia.
• 100 incidents at level crossings per year
• 37 deaths