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Alert for Rail Crossings * Australia - Transport groups explore systems
Melbourne,Australia -ATN -11 March 2008: -- A landmark decision has been taken by peak transport industry bodies to collaborate in a project to develop and apply intelligent transport systems (ITS) technologies to reduce rail crossing crashes in Australia... Announced at the inaugural ITS for Railway Level Crossing Workshop, hosted jointly by Intelligent Transport Systems Australia (ITS Australia) and the Australasian Railway Association (ARA) recently in Melbourne, the project will bring together key stakeholder groups to focus on both immediate solutions using current technologies, and long term solutions employing purpose built technologies... "Perhaps other ITS technologies should be deployed to help change driver behaviour at the critical decision point by making real time information available to alert drivers to either a safe crossing, or danger and the need for action. This can be achieved easily with infrastructure to vehicle communication, or with GPS navigation units," says ITS Australia Executive Director Terry Warin."Road side to vehicle transmitters already exist in many parts of Australia for monitoring freight movements and GPS units are becoming increasingly popular. We know where every rail crossing in Australia is located. By installing GPS units in locomotives, the progress of trains toward level crossings will be monitored in real time"... "To complete the link, communication would be established between the units in the locomotive and the approaching vehicle. This means both drivers receive an alert in real time that there is not only a level crossing ahead, but that there is danger because the train and vehicle are converging"...
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