Improving track availability monitoring technology

Implemented

Rail R

Accident

7.4.2011

B4/2010R/S286

Suosituksen perustelu

Track availability monitoring equipment, which is unreliable and often fails, is indirectly causing situations in which overall security is being compromised.

Recommendation

The party responsible for the upkeep of the track should systematically monitor and, when required, improve track maintenance and techniques for determining track availability so that security is not unnecessarily compromised.

Toimenpide-ehdotukset

Track availability monitoring equipment, which is unreliable and often fails, is indirectly causing situations in which overall security is being compromised.