A statistical study of railway safety in China and Japan 1990-2020

Yuan Cao; Yuntong An; Shuai Su; Guo Xie; Yongkui Sun

doi:10.1016/j.aap.2022.106764

A statistical study of railway safety in China and Japan 1990-2020

Accid Anal Prev. 2022 Sep:175:106764. doi: 10.1016/j.aap.2022.106764. Epub 2022 Jul 22.

Authors

Yuan Cao¹, Yuntong An², Shuai Su³, Guo Xie⁴, Yongkui Sun⁵

Affiliations

¹ State Key Laboratory of Rail Traffic Control and Safety, Beijing Jiaotong University, Beijing 100044, China; National Engineering Research Center of Rail Transportation Operation and Control System, Beijing Jiaotong University, Beijing 100044, China; School of Electronic and Information Engineering, Beijing Jiaotong University, Beijing 100044, China.
² National Engineering Research Center of Rail Transportation Operation and Control System, Beijing Jiaotong University, Beijing 100044, China; School of Electronic and Information Engineering, Beijing Jiaotong University, Beijing 100044, China. Electronic address: 21111059@bjtu.edu.cn.
³ State Key Laboratory of Rail Traffic Control and Safety, Beijing Jiaotong University, Beijing 100044, China; Frontiers Science Center for Smart High-speed Railway System, Beijing Jiaotong University, Beijing 100044, China.
⁴ Shaanxi Key Laboratory of Complex System Control and Intelligent Information Processing, Xi'an University of Technology, Shaanxi 710048, China.
⁵ National Engineering Research Center of Rail Transportation Operation and Control System, Beijing Jiaotong University, Beijing 100044, China; School of Electronic and Information Engineering, Beijing Jiaotong University, Beijing 100044, China.

PMID: 35878468
DOI: 10.1016/j.aap.2022.106764

Abstract

Safety is the precondition and guarantee of railway development. However, due to equipment failure, poor management, misoperation and so on, accidents on the railway occur from time to time. China and Japan, as leading countries in Railway Technology in the world, have done a lot of work in accident prevention and safety. Through the collection and comparison of transport data and typical casualty cases in China and Japan, this paper summarizes the main causes of accidents and the experience of accident prevention in the two countries. And further, puts forward suggestions for preventing accidents and large-scale casualty.

Keywords: Accident analysis; Accident statistics; Railway safety.

MeSH terms

Accident Prevention
Accidents
Accidents, Traffic / prevention & control
China / epidemiology
Humans
Japan
Railroads*