Analysis of Hazards, Risk and Safety Environment in Railways with Reference to Dedicated Freight Corridor Corporation of India Limited

Dedicated Freight Corridor Corporation of India Ltd. (DFCCIL) has been given a mandate to construct, maintain and operate Dedicated Rail Freight Corridors across the country. To begin with, the Government of India has entrusted DFCCIL with construction, maintenance and operation of Eastern Corridor between Sanehwal near Ludhiana to Dankuni in West Bengal and Western Corridor connecting Dadri in Uttar Pradesh to Jawaharlal Nehru Port (JNPT) in Mumbai. The Corporate Plan, to the construction of DFCs, is a “work-in-progress�. DFCCIL undertakes the challenge of building one of the largest rail transport infrastructure initiatives post-independence. The primary objective of this study is to provide an improved method for rail safety appraisal at “railway-highway� grade crossings through the development and application of suitable safety risk scores (called ‘Safety Risk Index’) with a combination of both accident frequency and accidental consequences prediction models generated for crossings, and also by using these safety risk scores to identify the worst or most dangerous locations.