Title: Safety analysis at railway level crossing

Authors: Sharad Nigam; Divya Kumar

Addresses: Department of CSE, MNNIT Allahabad, Prayagraj, 211004, India ' Department of CSE, MNNIT Allahabad, Prayagraj, 211004, India

Abstract: Indian Railways has a complex track network that passes from plain areas, hilly areas, forests, above from the rivers, and tunnels. In context of railway and roadway, level crossing is a place where track cross the road. Due to the different transportation pattern, speed, and size of the vehicle, railway trains and roadway vehicles cannot run simultaneously. Level crossing is a place where frequent train to vehicle accidents occur, so trains are given priority over road vehicles to pass through the level crossing. To minimise the accidental risk and allow road vehicles to pass from the level crossing railway authority deployed some safety methods i.e., closure, merger, manning, subway. This paper describes a new safety method i.e., automatic level crossing gate as a 5th class to improve the decision tree prediction model performed on the dataset, and tries to conduct a comparative analysis of 4-class classification model and 5-class classification model. Dataset is taken from the authorised source of Indian Railway/CAMTECH/RDSO (2021). Automatic level crossing as a safety method tries to solve multiple conflicts of the safety decision as present in the dataset and improve the prediction model to provide suitable methods in the context of safety, facility and cost.

Keywords: level crossing; TVU; train vehicle unit; decision tree; entropy; information gain; automatic level crossing.

DOI: 10.1504/IJHVS.2025.149286

International Journal of Heavy Vehicle Systems, 2025 Vol.32 No.5, pp.647 - 663

Received: 18 Jul 2024
Accepted: 23 Oct 2024
Published online: 22 Oct 2025 *

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