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Development of a Time-Based Railway Crossing Control System and Evaluation  

Park Dongjoo (국립공주대학교, 건설환경공학부/방재연구센터)
Oh Ju-Taek (교통개발연구원)
Lee Sun-Ha (국립공주대학교, 건설환경공학부/방재연구센터)
Jung Chun-Hee (국립공주대학교, 건설환경공학부)
Shin Seong-Hoon (한국건설기술연구원, 도로연구부)
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Journal of the Korean Society for Railway / v.8, no.2, 2005 , pp. 145-154 More about this Journal
Abstract
Traffic accidents at highway-rail crossing result in larger social and economic damages than the accidents at the typical highway intersections. The traditional control and warning systems of the highway-rail crossing have limitations in that 1) they do not recognize the differences of the trains' arrival times because they rely on the distance-based control system, rather than the time-based one, and 2) thereby they usually cause longer delays of vehicles and pedestrians at the highway-rail crossings. The objective of this study is to develop a time-based railroad crossing control system which takes into account the speed and expected arrival time of trains. using the spot speeds and acceleration rates of trains measured at three points, the developed system was found to be able to accurately estimate the arrival time of train. VISSIM simulation package was utilized to compare system effect of the developed time-based railroad crossing control system with that of the conventional distance-based one. It was found that the developed time-based railroad crossing control system reduced the average travel time, maximum delay length, average delay time, and average number of stop-experienced vehicles as much as 7.0$\%$, 75.6$\%$, 12.7$\%$, and 60.0$\%$, respectively, compared with those from the conventional distance-based one.
Keywords
Railway crossing; Train speed detection; Time-based railway crossing control; Supersonic detector; VISSIM;
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