Trans-Risk - An Integrated Method for Risk Management in Transport
Many attempts have been made at risk management integration in other spheres of life. A review of risk management in the modes of transport shows some substantial differences in the terminology and the detailed rules and applications of risk management. As a result, it is important to try and integrate risk management methods in transport. This paper presents the results of the work of an interdisciplinary team working on integrating the methods of risk management. The members represented the four modes of transport listed in the project called Integrated System of Transport Safety ZEUS. The paper presents the background conditions for the integration of risk management in transport and a concept of an integrated method for risk management called TRANS-RISK.
The article presents a proposition of a methodology of research performed to assess car drivers’ perception at level crossings. Its main assumptions as well as the description of devices and tools selected for carrying out the research were given. The steps of the proposed methodology algorithm are discussed in detail. The background of the issue presents the conditions of the functioning of railway crossings in Poland. The last part of the article are the final remarks, in which the areas of application of results obtained according to the proposed methodology are indicated.
Risk management is an essential tool for the implementation of safety policy within the framework of safety management systems deployed in all enterprises involved in the management of railway infrastructure and transport operations on the fundamental European Union rail network. The idea of risk management, however, is much younger than the railway system and therefore it is sometimes regarded as an independent supplement to the business of entities related to the railway. The aim of this article is to present how the processes of the railway track maintenance system can be supported by the language of methods of risk management, in order to be able to better integrate these processes with the safety management system of an infrastructure manager. This work also discusses the requirements for safety management systems and indicates further possible directions of research in the field of risk management methods which support processes of maintenance of railway tracks.
The railway network in Poland with over 19000 km is one of the biggest in the European Union (EU). At the same time safety indicators collected by the European Union Agency for Railways (ERA) show that it is one of the least safe in Europe. Consequently, all the actions taken in safety management of Polish Railways are particularly important for the society. In 2015, there was a change in the main infrastructure manager’s rulebook on track maintenance. A new process rule was introduced to replace a large set of long-established action rules. However, supervision reports of the Polish National Safety Authority indicate that the new rule is not used properly. Therefore, the current process of taking maintenance decisions on Polish Railways was described and a novel concept of maintenance layers and Maintenance Board meetings was proposed. The change would allow to choose the order of maintenance activities in a more objective way than it is done nowadays, without the necessity to make any major investments.
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