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 2024 - March - Sudholz - Passively Active - Warning systems for passive & occupation level crossings in agricultural settings |
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Thomas SudholzB.Eng (Hons), B.Comm, GradDip. Railway Signalling Metro Trains Melbourne This Paper investigates the issues regarding use of passive level crossings for livestock movements in the agricultural industry. This unavoidable practice presents a different risk profile to the typical user, with livestock movement being an inherently time-consuming task which results in the prolonged fouling of a crossing. It was found that the risk associated with usage of passive level crossings for livestock movement is currently not assessed nor controlled So Far As Is Reasonably Practicable (SFAIRP), due to fouling times associated with this form of use. The Paper assessed established and emerging systems for level crossing protection, with concepts compared to determine how advance warnings can be provided to graziers utilising passive level crossings for the movement of livestock. A system has thus been conceived that would provide sufficient advance warnings to graziers of rail traffic arrival at level crossings, such that livestock and plant traversal risks are controlled SFAIRP. |
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