SCHEME OF CROSSING WITH INTENSIVE VEHICLE TRAFFIC

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[For the English abstract and full text of the article please see the attached PDF-File (English version follows Russian version)].ABSTRACT Severity and urgency of road safety problem at intersections of highways with railways require not only a sound and long-term control strategy for reducing a number of accidents and a risk of an accident at regulated crossings, but also continuous improvement of technical equipment of control plots by devices intended to prevent possible collision of cars with rail rolling stock. The proposed model of a gateway scheme of a crossing concerns conditions of passage through railway tracks of a motor transport moving with a high intensity (more than 7 thous. vehicles per day). Gateways with barriers and laser sensors-informants are added to standard devices, order of movement is adjusted, causing significant loss of crossing capacity, while safety increases fivefold. Keywords: railway crossing, safety, gateway scheme, road vehicle, transit capacity. REFERENCES 1.Road Traffic Rules 2015 (RTR2015/2016) [Pravila dorozhnogo dvizhenija 2015 (PDD2015/2016 g.)]. 2.Crossings of Russian Railways: analytical materials / Department of track and structures of JSC Russian Railways [Pereezdy Rossijskih zheleznyh dorog: analiticheskie materialy / Departament puti i sooruzhenij OAO «RZhD»].Moscow, Akademkniga publ., 2004, 152 p. 3.Number of accidents at crossings of Moscow Railway have diminished by more than twice [Press release of Moscow Railway - a subsidiary to JSC Russian Railways: in Russian].[Electronic resource] http://mzd.rzd.ru/news/public/ ru?STRUCTURE_ID=12&layer_id=4069&refererPageId =704&refererLayerId=3941&id=113298.Last accessed 15.12.2015. 4.CRB-757.Instructions for signaling on railways of the Russian Federation, 2015 [CRB-757. Instrukcija po signalizacii na zheleznyh dorogah Rossijskoj Federacii, 2015 g.].