Indian Railways (IR), the largest rail passenger carrier in the world, has experienced 11 major accidents due to derailment or collision between trains in the year 2010, leading to several human casualties and large-scale disruptions in traffic. Alarmingly, 8 of these 11 accidents have occurred ...
NEW DELHI, July 27 (Xinhua) -- The state-owned Indian Railways has introduced five state-of-the-art track maintenance machines in a bid to reduce train accidents across the country. "Inducted 5 new track maintenance machines which will completely mechanize the monitoring, relaying and maintenance...
Cost Analysis and Prediction of Railroad Level Crossing Accidents for Indian RailwaysCOST analysisRAILROAD crossingsRAILROAD accidentsFEATURE extractionWith the tremendous increase in the number of vehicles, the dense traffic created can lead to accidents and fatalities. In a traffic system, the costs for...
This study presents two accident prediction models using logistic regression and ANN for the predominant factors of accidents in the ECR zone of Indian railways. The accuracy of fatal accident prediction was 96% for logistic regression and 98% for ANN.Chhotu, Anil Kumar...