A Study on Crash Causations for Railroad-Highway Crossings

철도건널목 사고요인 분석에 관한 연구

  • Published : 2005.01.01

Abstract

Railroad crossing crashes are fewer than road crashes, but with regard to crash severity, they can be serious injury crashes. There should be, therefore, enormous efforts to increase the safety of railroad crossings. The objective of this paper is to identify and understand factors associated with railroad crossing crashes. Statistical models are used to examine the relationships between crossing accidents and geometric elements of crossings. The results show the Poisson model is the most appropriate method for the crossing accidents, because overdispersion was not observed. This study identifies seven significant factors associated with railroad crossing crashes through the main and variant models. With regard to explanatory factors on crossing safety, the total traffic volume, daily train volume, presence of commercial area around crossings, distance of train detector from crossings, time duration between the activation of warning signals and gates, crossing types, and speed hump were found to affect the safety of railroad crossings.

철도건널목사고는 일반 도로사고보다는 상대적으로 사고의 발생도는 적으나, 사고의 심각도면에서는 대형사고로 연결될 수 있다는 점에서 철도건널목에서의 안전성 확보는 결코 소홀히 다루어질 수 없다. 본 연구에서는 건널목 사고모델을 통해 건널목 사고에 영향을 미치는 요인들은 분석하고 이를 정량화하여 교차로 안전성 향상에 기여하고자 한다. 본 연구에서는 건널목사고 분석에 있어서 사고데이터 특성을 고려하여 비선형 회귀분석 중 적정 모델식을 적용하였다. 철도건널목 관련 변수들을 이용하여 분석한 결과, 분산값이 0에 가까운 값을 나타내어 포아송 회귀분석이 적합한 것으로 나타났다. 또한 본 연구에서는 주 모델과 후보모델 통해 건널목 사고에 영향을 미치는 7개의 주요설명변수들을 규명했는데 그 변수들은 차량 교통량과 철도교통량, 상업지역, 제어거리, 경보시간차, 건널목유형, 과속방지턱으로 분석되었다.

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