Railroad Disaster Prevention System and Railroad Weather-Related Accidents and incidents according to Precipitation

철도방재시스템과 강우에 인한 철도기상사고

  • 박종길 (인제대학교 환경공학부/대기환경정보연구센터) ;
  • 정우식 (인제대학교 대기환경정보공학과/대기환경정보연구센터) ;
  • 김희만 (철도공사 부산경남본부 안전환경팀) ;
  • 김은별 (인제대학교 대기환경정보공학과/대기환경정보연구센터) ;
  • 이재수 (철도공사 마산기관차승무사업소 지도운용과)
  • Published : 2010.06.10

Abstract

This paper aims to find out characteristics of railroad weather-related accidents and incidents and to proposes the plan of railroad disaster prevention according to the precipitation. For this, we make the database about the railroad weather-related accidents and incidents and analysis the relationship between the hourly and cumulative precipitation and railroad accidents. The results are as follows; The weather events that have the most occurrence frequency of railroad weather-related accidents and incidents is a rainfall of the precipitation and then the cause of that was the falling rocks and the collapsed roadbed. The rainfall patterns of collapsed roadbed were classified into 4 groups. When the variation of hourly rainfall is 10/15 mm/hr over, we need to consider the caution/stop of train operation and a speed limit, respectively.

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