Analysis of Safety Alarm Mechanism for RF -based Equipment for Casualty Protection by Railway Maintenance Vehicle

  • Jo, Hyun-Jeong (Train Control & Telecommunication Research Division, Korea Railroad Research Institute) ;
  • Hwang, Jong-Gyu (Train Control & Telecommunication Research Division, Korea Railroad Research Institute) ;
  • Yoon, Yong-Ki (Train Control & Telecommunication Research Division, Korea Railroad Research Institute)
  • 투고 : 2010.06.15
  • 심사 : 2010.12.10
  • 발행 : 2010.12.31

초록

When doing maintenance works at the trackside of railway, the method which delivers information on approaching of train to maintenance workers through alarm devices such as the flag or indication light, etc., is being used by locating persons in charge of safety alarm in addition to the maintenance workers at fixed distances in the front and rear of the workplace. Workers maintaining at the trackside may collide with the train since they cannot recognize the approach of train although it approaches to the vicinity of maintenance workplace because of the sensory block phenomenon occurred due to their long hours of continued monotonous maintenance work. The clash or rear-end collision accidents between many maintenance trains called motor-cars can be occurred since there are cases where the signal systems for safe operation of motor-car such as track circuit etc. are blocked or not operated normally. We developed the new safety equipment for protection of trackside maintenance workers using radio frequency signals and bidirectional detection mechanism. The developed safety equipment must analyze the several operational mechanism for each different operation situations. In this paper the analysis results are represented.

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