| EPSRC Reference: |
GR/R98488/01 |
| Title: |
Interactions between rail and road safety |
| Principal Investigator: |
Evans, Professor A |
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| Department: |
Civil Environmental and Geomatic Eng |
| Organisation: |
UCL |
| Scheme: |
Standard Research (Pre-FEC) |
| Starts: |
01 April 2003 |
Ends: |
31 March 2005 |
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113,644
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| Transport Ops & Management |
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| Transport Systems and Vehicles |
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Safety policy for the different modes of transport has not been integrated. The level of safety on rail is generally higher than on the road, especially for unprotected road users (pedestrians and cyclists); some of the major safety measures now being considered for rail are much more expensive per fatality or injury prevented than road safety measures. It follows that transfers of passengers between rail and road in either direction may have material safety consequences. Such transfers may either be a consequence of non-safety decisions, such as on fares or service levels, or they may be an indirect consequence of safety decisions, such as fare increases or service level reductions necessary in order to fund safety measures. Thus it is possible in principle that decisions taken for the purpose of improving safety could induce inter-modal transfers and actually make the combined rail and road system less safe, for the passengers concerned or third parties. One of the aims of this project is to explore this possibility, using two-mode transport models. More generally, the purpose is to investigate circumstances in which inter-modal transfers could have material safety consequences. A second consequence of the different safety levels is that the contribution to 'whole journey risk' from different stages of inter-modal journeys may be very uneven: for example, the main risk for some rail travellers may be at the station or walking to and from it. A second aim of the project is to investigate the risk profile of typical multi-modal journeys, again counting both travellers and third parties.
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