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Dina, Adeolu O., Cornelius O. Akanni, and Bamidele A. Badejo. "Evaluation of Railway Level Crossing Attributes on Accident Causation in Lagos, Nigeria." Indonesian Journal of Geography 48, no. 2 (January 5, 2017): 108. http://dx.doi.org/10.22146/ijg.17520.

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Abstract The study examines the contribution of Railway Level Crossing (RLC)physical attributes to accident occurrence using the12 major level crossings within the Lagos metropolis. The 48km single track mainline section under consideration which barely make up 1.1% of the entire narrow gauge track network of the country within a 5 year period contributed about 45% of the total National crossing accidents recorded in Nigeria. The method of investigation involved recording the individual attributes of each RLC such asgates, pedestrian traffic, car traffic light, proximity of signage to crossing, vehicular traffic as dummy variables.The regression analysis was used to measure their effect on accidents.The result indicates gates, pedestrians and the location of signage had significant impact on accidents occurrence at level crossings within Lagos metropolis. Based on the findings, enhancement of active warning systems among other recommendations was suggested as potent counter measures for RLC accident reduction.Abstrak Penelitian menguji tingkat kontribusi atribut fisik dari perlintasan jalan kereta api terhadap kejadian kecelakaan menggunakan 12 perlintasan utama dalam kota metropolis Lagos. 48 km jalan utama tunggal menjadi pertimbangan yang hampir meningkat 1.1% dari seluruh trek sempit jaringan negara dalam jangka waktu 5 tahun menyumbang sekitar 45% dari total kecelakaan perlintasan secara Nasional di Nigeria. Metode penelitian melibatkan catatan dari masing-masing atribut RLC seperti pintu gerbang, pejalan kaki, lampu lalu lintas mobil, kedekatan tanda penyebarangan, lalu lintas kendaraan sebagai variabel dumi. Analisis regresi digunakan untuk mengukur pengaruh dari atribut terhadap kecelakaan. Hasilnya menunjukkan pintu gerbang, pejalan kaki, dan lokasi tanda perlintasan mempunyai dampak signifikan pada kecelakaan dalam kota metropolis Lagos.Berdasarkan penemuan tersebut, perbaikan dari sistem peringatan aktif disarankan sebagai upaya mengurangi kecelakaan RLC.
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Jonsson, Lina, Gunilla Björklund, and Gunnar Isacsson. "Marginal costs for railway level crossing accidents in Sweden." Transport Policy 83 (November 2019): 68–79. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.tranpol.2019.09.004.

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Iftekharuzzaman, Iftekharuzzaman, Susmita Ghosh, Mohammad Khairul Basher, Mohammad Aminul Islam, Narottam Das, and Mohammad Nur-E-Alam. "Design and Concept of Renewable Energy Driven Auto-Detectable Railway Level Crossing Systems in Bangladesh." Future Transportation 3, no. 1 (January 4, 2023): 75–91. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/futuretransp3010005.

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Bangladesh’s railway system mostly uses typical manual railway crossing techniques or boom gates through its 2955.53 km rail route all over the country. Accidents frequently happen at railway crossings due to the lack of quickly operating gate systems, and to fewer safety measures at the railway crossing as well. Currently, there are very few automatic railway crossing systems available (without obstacle detectors). Additionally, all of them are dependent on the national power grid, without a backup plan for any emergency cases. Bangladesh is still running a bit behind in generating enough power for its consumption; hence, it is not possible to have a continuous power supply at all times all over the countryside. We aim to design and develop a smart railway crossing system with an obstacle detector to prevent common types of accidents at railway crossing points. We use two infrared (IR) sensors to operate the railway crossing systems, which are controlled by an Arduino Uno. This newly designed level crossing system is run with the help of sustainable renewable energy, which is cost-effective and eco-friendly, and applied under the national green energy policy towards achieving sustainable development in Bangladesh as a part of the global sustainable goal to face climate change challenges. We have summarized the simulated the results of several renewable energy sources, including a hybrid system, and optimized the Levelized Cost of Energy (LCOE) and the payback periods.
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Haga, Shigeru. "Prevention of Accidents at Road-Rail Level Crossings Protected with Automatic Barriers." Proceedings of the Human Factors Society Annual Meeting 32, no. 15 (October 1988): 933–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.1518/107118188786761866.

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A recent study on level crossing safety is reported. The study employed three different approaches: a survey of drivers' attitude to the level crossing, quantitative estimation of accident risk from characteristics of level crossings, and improvement of crossing design from the human factors point of view. The results have been utilized by railway companies and police authorities in safety campaigns, driver education, safety investment, and improvement of warning systems for level crossings.
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Utami, Adita, and Hera Widyastuti. "STUDY OF SOCIETY BEHAVIOR TO EARLY WARNING IN THE RAILWAY LEVEL CROSSING WITHOUT BARRIER IN GAYUNG KEBONSARI, SURABAYA." Majalah Ilmiah Pengkajian Industri 14, no. 1 (April 30, 2020): 39–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.29122/mipi.v14i1.4040.

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Railway level crossing safety is one of the most critical issues for railways. Collisions between trains and motorized vehicles contribute most to LX accidents. Population growth and the development of economic in Indonesia affect the increase in vehicle volume, especially in the city of Surabaya. Furthermore, the increasing of vehicles volume, causing congestion at some points in Surabaya including Gayung Kebonsari railway level crossing. One of the congestion factors at the railway level crossings is the duration of closing time as the train passes through the crossing. The uncertain duration of gate closing time cause road users to be undisciplined by break through the crossing gates while the train pass through the crossings. Considering of those problems, respondents’ opinion is being evaluated to see the society behavior to early warning on reducing the number of traffic violation. A comprehensive discussion of the existing problems, lessons learned and the possible future implications that can be applied in Indonesia are presented. Key Words: Railway Level Crossing, Accident, Society Behavior, Regression, Binary logit
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Galinurov, Rishat Zinfirovich, and Anton Nikolaevich Popov. "Study of level crossing safety installation operation parameters on the basis of stochastic modeling." Transport of the Urals, no. 2 (2022): 42–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.20291/1815-9400-2022-2-42-49.

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Reasons that lead to delay of motor transport at a closed railway crossing and to increase of a number of transport accidents at road level intersections are caused by the imperfection of the currently used method for calculation of parameters of level crossing safety installations. The paper proposes a probabilistic method for studying level crossing safety installations that considers parameters of railway transport traffic. For the creation of a stochastic model the authors have applied the Petri nets theory. Besides they have considered issues of analytical studying of the model on the basis of the graph theory and the theory of semi-Markovian processes. As a result, on the basis of stochastic modeling the authors have calculated parameters of devices for a level crossing safety installation.
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Li, Lin Lin, Xiao Yi Zhang, Xia Zhang, and Qing Li. "Semi-Supervised Machine Learning Algorithms for Classifying the Imbalanced Protocol Flows." Applied Mechanics and Materials 536-537 (April 2014): 809–14. http://dx.doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/amm.536-537.809.

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The collision that between a car and a train is the main type of accidents in the case railway level-crossing, which is proved by the arrangement diagram analysing. The fault tree analysis and the event tree analysis are used to assess the level of the risk of the level-crossing quantificationally. Some conclusions can be drawn: the collision of the railway level-crossing that between a car and a train will happen 2.552 in a year, which can bring 0.061 equivalent fatalities. This paper puts forward some precautionary measures that based on the minimal cut set of the collision of the accident and the most probable or the highest risk event.
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Szabłowska, Paulina. "Level crossings – legal situation, design conditions, accidents and it’s causes." AUTOBUSY – Technika, Eksploatacja, Systemy Transportowe 19, no. 6 (June 30, 2018): 1260–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.24136/atest.2018.263.

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Level crossing is the most dangerous place at which most accidents take place in connection with railway vehicles. While going by train in Poland we pass a level crossing almost every 1.5 km. Many of them do not have any safety devices like light or sound signal or car stops. In Poland there are almost 15 000 level crossings at which around 200 accidents happen with 50 fatalities in a year. These numbers are rising although PKP Polskie Linie Kolejowe S.A. (the main rail infrastructure manager) implements many projects for infrastructure revitalisations and modernisations.In this report the basic types of level crossings and current legal situation are described. Also, basic guidelines and troubles with the subject in question are shown. The author discusses statistical data about accidents and shows its most frequent causes. At the end, the author tries to analyze if it is
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Starčević, Martin, Danijela Barić, and Hrvoje Pilko. "Survey-based Impact of Influencing Parameters on Level Crossings Safety." PROMET - Traffic&Transportation 28, no. 6 (December 19, 2016): 639–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.7307/ptt.v28i6.2208.

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Level crossing (LC) accidents are a significant safety challenge worldwide and for that reason they have been subject of numerous research activities. Joint conclusion is that human behaviour is the main cause of accidents. This study examines how and to which extent certain influential parameters cause accident mechanisms on level crossings. To gain the necessary data we used an on-line survey questionnaire that was sent internationally to key experts in the field of road and railway safety. A total of 185 experts were asked to rank how much certain parameters influence level crossings accident mechanisms and what are the best countermeasures for diminishing accidents at level crossings. To our knowledge, this is the first time that an international survey among key experts was used to gain necessary data about influential parameters regarding level crossings safety. The results of this study could be used by road and railway traffic engineers and policy makers for further enhancement of LC’s safety.
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Zhu, Shilin, and Xiangzhong Meng. "Design of Intelligent Security Early warning system for unguarded railway crossing in mining area." Journal of Physics: Conference Series 2029, no. 1 (September 1, 2021): 012076. http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1742-6596/2029/1/012076.

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Abstract There are many railway crossings in the mine, but there are not enough people to keep every crossing manned. For the traditional unguarded railway crossing, we set up a warning sign at a certain distance from the crossing to remind pedestrians and drivers. For some crossings with poor vision, both pedestrians and locomotive drivers at the crossings can’t make timely and accurate judgment on the surrounding real-time road conditions, which is easy to cause safety accidents. In order to solve this technical problem and demand, an intelligent security and early warning robot with image recognition module and intelligent control board was developed by combining advanced theories and technologies such as Internet +, image recognition, beidou+ GPS dual-mode positioning, wind and solar complementary power generation and multi-sensor fusion. The system can improve the intelligent level of the unguarded crossing in the mining area, realize the unmanned or less unmanned crossing work, and ensure the safety of railway transportation in the coal mine.
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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Railway level crossing (RLX) accidents"

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(9840089), William Thomsen. "Towards affordable safer level crossings: Human factors specifications for assessing new technologies for passive crossings." Thesis, 2011. https://figshare.com/articles/thesis/Towards_affordable_safer_level_crossings_Human_factors_specifications_for_assessing_new_technologies_for_passive_crossings/13460390.

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"This study has been a part of the Cooperative Research Centre for Rail Innovation's Project R3.111. It has investigated the issues underlying road user error from the human factors engineering perspective"--Abstract.
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Huang, Chun-fu, and 黃俊福. "The analysis of dangerous degrees for railway level crossing accidents." Thesis, 2009. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/20509103143372058553.

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國立中央大學
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In all kind of the land transportation, the railway transportation system has the lowest rate of accident. While once an accident is happened, it usually causes life and property loss. Especially the level crossing which is crossed between railway and highway. Slight accident will tie up traffic, and serious accident will cause death and car crash. This research forecasts the possiblity of accident happening by setting a railway crossing accident analysis model. Based on the research, we can realize more about the correlation factor. The research uses data from Crossing Improvement Plan published by Taiwan Provincial Government in 1998 as references. It consists of both historical accident data and railway level crossing related data in Taiwan, such as crossing types, highway geometric characteristics, daily trains and average annual daily traffic (AADT), etc. We try to reorganize the traffic accident data since 2002 to 2007, collected from Transportation Department, Taiwan Railway Administration, to the level crossing accident data. Finally, the research could be applied to Poisson Regression Model, Negative Binomial regression, and Back-Propagation Neural Network for evaluating the prediction of the level crossing accident frequency models, fatalities models, and hurt models then to find the fittest model with the major factor which is relative significantly. It can provide the relation with the TRA for forecasting accident in the future. As a consequence of this research, we can find Poisson Regression Model and Negative Binomial regression are better than Back-Propagation Neural Network. The most significant factor of effect on level crossing model is the number of pass trains.
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Books on the topic "Railway level crossing (RLX) accidents"

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Inspectorate, Great Britain Railway. Railway accident, report on the collision that occurred on 22nd March 1983 at Brunton Lane level crossing on the Tyneside Metropolitan Railway. London: H.M.S.O., 1985.

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Inspectorate, Great Britain Railway. Railway accident, report on the collision that occurred on 26th June 1982 at Clayton Bridge level crossing in the London Midland Region of British Railways. London: H.M.S.O., 1985.

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Economic & Social Commission for Asia &. Evaluation of Cost-Effective Systems for Railway Level-Crossing Protection. United Nations Publications, 2000.

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United Nations. Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific., ed. Evaluation of cost-effective systems for railway level-crossing protection. New York: United Nations, 2000.

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Conference papers on the topic "Railway level crossing (RLX) accidents"

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Starčević, Martin, Danijela Barić, and Ivan Broz. "Increasing level crossing safety in urban areas - Case study City of Zagreb." In 6th International Conference on Road and Rail Infrastructure. University of Zagreb Faculty of Civil Engineering, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.5592/co/cetra.2020.1030.

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Level crossings (LC’s) are one of the most dangerous points in railway traffic with frequent accidents that result in significant material damages and almost always fatalities. When level crossings are located within highly populated urban areas, they represent an even higher risk for accidents because of increased traffic volume for both the road and rail sectors. There are currently 34 level crossings in the City of Zagreb, some of which are on the roads with the highest traffic volume in the Republic of Croatia. Accident analyses on level crossings show poor traffic culture, especially pedestrians, which are intentionally disregarding traffic rules and showing poor judgment. This paper will show the existing condition and possible improvements of identified shortcomings of observed level crossings in the City of Zagreb and it will also present the existing level crossing regulations, classification, and safety on the railway network in the Republic of Croatia.
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Iridiastadia, Hardianto, and Ani Umyatib. "Train Accidents at Level Crossings in Indonesia – A Preliminary Study." In Applied Human Factors and Ergonomics Conference. AHFE International, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.54941/ahfe100749.

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Accidents involving passenger trains in Indonesia are still prevalent. Accidents at level crossings, in particular, have not been declining. In 2013, for example, a major accident at a level crossing occurred that resulted in a number of fatalities and significant financial implications. The impacts of such accidents ranged from property damage to fatalities. This study aimed at understanding the statistics of accidents at railway level crossings in Indonesia. This was achieved by conducting a survey to a couple of government institutions responsible for managing the railway transportation. Furthermore, this study will describe factors related to the accidents by employing Human Factors Analysis and Classification System (HFACS). A total of 81 cases out of 134 accidents (between 2006 and 2011) were studied and classified. Results of this study indicated that the majority (97%) of the accidents were caused by “outside factors”, particularly vehicles trying to pass the crossings while the barriers and warnings have been activated. A small percentage of these accidents dealt with operators or technical aspects of the warning/barrier system. Existing road safety regulations specifically indicated, in a large number of cases, that the company operating the railway train might not be responsible for the accidents. Nevertheless, this company (and relevant ministries) could offer a more proactive approach in minimizing the accidents. This includes understanding driver behaviors at level crossings and designing a more effective warning/barrier system.
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Sanz Bobi, Juan de Dios, Pedro Reyes de la Pen˜a, Jose Carlos Hidalgo Fiestas, Alberto Garci´a de los A´ngeles, and Roberto Loiero. "Sizing Solar Energy Components for Level-Crossing Facilities." In ASME 2008 International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition. ASMEDC, 2008. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/imece2008-68672.

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Currently, there are a large number of level crossings on railway lines. These signaling facilities are necessary from the point of view of railway lines and also from the traffic of vehicles and people crossing them. This signaling system is built on a number of elements such as acoustic and lighting signals—barriers that prevent cars & pedestrians from accessing rail tracks. These level crossing facilities operate autonomously and they are not part of the security facilities (interlockings) when planning or building stages. Therefore, a major constraint for level crossings is the lack of a feasible electric supply primarily because of the high cost of cable running due to the great difficulty of transporting this energy to some areas. This high cost will make installation unprofitable where there is light traffic in trains and/or pedestrians and vehicles. This paper proposes that a solar photovoltaic supply system would make installation cost efficient instead of cable running. The research shows that the sizing method for this power supply and the measuring tool detailed below ease calculations. This proposed system provides both economical and environmental benefits. These benefits positively impact those areas where traditional cable supply is difficult to provide. In order to size the electrical feeding system for these level crossings facilities two calculations are necessary: 1) the calculation of the daily incident solar irradiation into a horizontal surface and, 2) the location where the facility is going to be set. The calculation of the theoretical energy consumption is determined by the integral of the instantaneous electrical power consumption of the system. Thus, the proposed solution in the paper provides a cost reduction to deploy level crossing facilities crossing existing railway lines. It allows the installation of level crossings with increased security features necessary for the correct signaling from the basic level crossing to configurations such as acoustic and light signals, or even protective barriers. These elements provide more information and safety to cars and pedestrians concerning train crossing, decreasing the risk of accidents. Additionally, this power supply system can be deployed easily and can be adapted to any topology minimizing costs. Furthermore these systems are environmentally friendly as they clear away the impact of the electrical consumption of the facility from the network and do not need cable running in order to transport this energy to the level crossing facility.
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Aminmansour, Sina, Frederic Maire, and Christian Wullems. "Video Analytics for the Detection of Near-Miss Incidents on Approach to Railway Level Crossings." In 2014 Joint Rail Conference. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/jrc2014-3811.

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Recent modelling of socio-economic costs by the Australian railway industry in 2010 has estimated the cost of level crossing accidents to exceed AU$116 million annually. To better understand causal factors that contribute to these accidents, the Cooperative Research Centre for Rail Innovation is running a project entitled Baseline Level Crossing Video. The project aims to improve the recording of level crossing safety data by developing an intelligent system capable of detecting near-miss incidents and capturing quantitative data around these incidents. To detect near-miss events at railway level crossings a video analytics module is being developed to analyse video footage obtained from forward-facing cameras installed on trains. This paper presents a vision base approach for the detection of these near-miss events. The video analytics module is comprised of object detectors and a rail detection algorithm, allowing the distance between a detected object and the rail to be determined. An existing publicly available Histograms of Oriented Gradients (HOG) based object detector algorithm is used to detect various types of vehicles in each video frame. As vehicles are usually seen from a sideway view from the cabin’s perspective, the results of the vehicle detector are verified using an algorithm that can detect the wheels of each detected vehicle. Rail detection is facilitated using a projective transformation of the video, such that the forward-facing view becomes a bird’s eye view. Line Segment Detector is employed as the feature extractor and a sliding window approach is developed to track a pair of rails. Localisation of the vehicles is done by projecting the results of the vehicle and rail detectors on the ground plane allowing the distance between the vehicle and rail to be calculated. The resultant vehicle positions and distance are logged to a database for further analysis. We present preliminary results regarding the performance of a prototype video analytics module on a data set of videos containing more than 30 different railway level crossings. The video data is captured from a journey of a train that has passed through these level crossings.
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Lin, Tu-Huan, Yu-Lin Shih, Jyh-Cherng Jong, and Chian-Shan Suen. "Development of an Intelligent Module Used in Railway Level Crossings to Solve the Safety and Punctuality Issues in Urban Area." In 2017 Joint Rail Conference. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/jrc2017-2220.

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In urban area, frequent train services during peak hours often keep interrupting roadway traffic approaching level crossings (LXs). In Taiwan, more than 24 trains per hour pass the LXs in peak hours, and it leads to more than 40% time blocked by the barriers. To mitigate the potential risk of accidents between trains and roadway vehicles, almost 20% LXs had been installed with obstacle detection devices. It, however, leads to the following issues: (1) when the level crossings open and then close within a short period of time, the vehicles would likely be trapped in the dangerous area; (2) if the closing time at level crossings is not adjusted effectively, it would seriously impact the traffic flow and increase the possibility of trespassing; (3) the false alarm triggered by the obstacle detection devices has serious impact on train punctuality. To mitigate the influence on roadside traffic and improve the safety, this study developed an intelligent module which consists of the following functions: (1) transmitting real-time videos of level crossings to the approaching trains, (2) constant alarm time for trains with different approaching speeds, and (3) extending alarm time for trains from the opposite directions within short time periods. A level crossing located on curved line in urban area was selected to test the performance of these functions in an actual scenario. Alternative solutions were also adopted in the tests to compare the performance for reference. The results show that the module can be viable in practice, but needs further works to ensure the safety, such as developing a fail-safe mechanism and overcoming the software security issues.
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