Evaluation of Safety Improvement in Iranian Railway Level Crossings

Increasing railway level crossing accidents during nineties, made the railway to analyse the situation. The primary investigation showed that; despite having very few level crossings, unfortunately, the number of accidents is 4 times greater than the average in European countries for every 100 crossings. Hence alongside the data gathering from crossings, steps were taken towards elaborating short term and long term planning and implementation of management network. Now, after five years from the execution of this plan, the crossing safety situation and the resulted enhancement is described in this paper. Studies show that; in spite of growing rail & road traffic the number of accidents have fallen tremendously.