To evaluate the level of safety of rail traffic in Sweden
Overview
Objectives:
The Swedish National Road and Transport Research Institute (VTI) has been commissioned by The Swedish Transport Agency to analyse if the existing data can be used to estimate the level of safety of rail traffic in Sweden in a manner meeting the standards of the European commission. The analysis will show if the required information is available through the existing system, or if there is an increased need for data collection, and if so, what and how it should be collected. The commission also includes suggesting areas for further analysis.
Methodology:
In the report, first a short description of the Swedish Transport Agency’s internal IT-system TRAP event is given. In TRAP event, serious accidents, incidents, and significant errors/flaws reported by the operators, are registered. We also make an assessment of the feasibility of estimating safety measures, defined by the European Commission, from TRAP event data, rather than through an annual safety report from the operators as is done today. Then we will give suggestions as to how the existing follow-up of accidents and risk factors can be refined, which analytical models that are feasible, and finally give suggestions for further data collection to enable in-depth analyses.
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