Causes of Railway Accidents in India and New Proposals as Preventive Measures
Pinak Ray
Assistant Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, UEM Kolkata , IN
Subham Roy
Assistant Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, UEM Kolkata , IN
Souptik Chakraborty
Assistant Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, UEM Kolkata , IN
Subhayu Goswami
Assistant Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, UEM Kolkata , IN
Roshan Chaudhuri
Assistant Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, UEM Kolkata , IN
Keywords: Train Accidents, Causes of Accidents, Preventive Measures, Vertical Signal System, Ultrasonic Pulse Generator; Automatic Bee-Buzz.
Abstract
One of the largest transportation networks in India is railway which conveys almost 22 million passengers every day. The main advantage of this mode of transportation is railway as it is a traffic-free mode of transportation having relatively less cost than other modes of transportations. As the network of railways is so vast, many train accidents have been occurred in past few years. The reasons behind most of the train accidents are mainly two types, i.e. one is technical error and another is human error. This paper enlists some of the major accidents that happened over since 1890 to 2016. After analyzing the several causes of accidents occurred in the past some new design proposals have been proposed as preventive measures such as vertical signal system; use of detonators; ultrasonic pulse generator; automatic Bee-Buzz etc.
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