Thailand Logistics: Analysis of Factors Affecting Railway Transportation Safety

Among various modes of transportation, railway transportation has become one of the main modes due to its low cost and generally unaffected by environmental factors. Next, let the Thai logistics editor analyze the factors affecting railway transportation safety.

1. Analysis of personnel influencing factors

Due to the important role of people in transportation work, human factors play a crucial role in transportation safety. The personnel who affect railway transportation safety include those within the transportation system and those outside the transportation system.

The personnel in the transportation system mainly refer to leaders, full-time managers, and grassroots workers at all levels of departments such as automobiles, machinery, public works, electrical engineering, vehicles, safety supervision, passenger transportation, and freight transportation. They are the most critical factor in ensuring transportation safety and should possess good ideological, technical, and psychological qualities.

Personnel outside the transportation system mainly refer to passengers, cargo owners, residents along the railway, motor vehicle drivers, etc. The impact on transportation safety is mainly manifested in the following aspects: accidents caused by passengers carrying "three goods" on buses; Accidents caused by the transportation of dangerous goods without truthful declaration; Forced passage of vehicles and pedestrians at railway level intersections; Demolition of railway equipment by personnel along the railway line and installation of obstacles along the line that pose a threat to railway transportation safety.

2. Equipment factor analysis

Railway transportation equipment is another important factor affecting transportation safety, which includes two types: transportation infrastructure equipment and transportation safety technology equipment.

Transportation infrastructure includes lines (roadbeds, bridges and tunnel buildings, tracks), stations, signal equipment, locomotives, rolling stock, communication equipment, etc. Transportation safety technology equipment includes safety monitoring equipment, detection equipment, natural disaster prediction and prevention equipment, accident rescue equipment, etc.

According to the nature and losses caused by railway transportation accidents, railway transportation accidents can be divided into special major accidents, dangerous accidents, and general accidents. Typical railway transportation accidents include locomotive and vehicle collision derailment accidents, locomotive and vehicle injury accidents, electrified railway electric injury accidents, and commercial line construction accidents.