The safety of train movement in railway transport (BDP) is the property of a train to be in a non-hazardous state for the estimated time when there is no threat to the safety of lives and health of passengers, technical staff, population, safety of cargo, business facilities, technical means of the transport system.
With the increase in power and speed of locomotives used for train movement, the level of negative consequences from traffic accidents increases. As an example, the consequences of derailing a train or carriages at speeds of 10 km / h and 160 km / h will differ very significantly.
The increase in train traffic in railway transport increases the likelihood of a threat of negative consequences. So, the more often a train passes in a unit of time, the greater will be the sum of time delays of trains that are forced to idle because of an emergency stop of one train.
Selected Incidents
In 1934 alone, in the USSR, 62 thousand cases of accidents, cases of defects in work and wrecks were allowed, as a result of which about 7 thousand locomotives were damaged and more than 64 thousand cars , of which 4.5 thousand were to the extent of exclusion from inventory .
In connection with the most difficult emergency situation on the USSR railway transport , on the basis of the resolution of the Central Committee of the CPSU (b) and the USSR Government on the establishment of the institute of traffic safety auditors, Lazar Moiseevich Kaganovich , the people's commissar of communications, signed the order No. 103 of 17 May 1937 traffic safety " [1] .
In 1937, a central board was created in the structure of the people's commissariat of communications , which was designed to exercise control over compliance with the requirements that ensure trouble-free operation of railway transport .
In the period from 1967 to 1977, the number of crashes per year was allowed in the range from 63 to 87 cases, including with passenger trains from 16 to 30.
In 1982-1991, from 31 to 52 trains crashed annually, including from 3 to 9 passenger trains, from 31 to 49 accidents were allowed, of which 21 to 24 were carried out with passenger trains. As a result of the crashes and accidents during this period 307 people died.
The institute of auditors in practice has shown its inconsistency, since wrecks and victims continue, regardless of the presence in the staff of auditing personnel.
See also
- Classification of traffic safety violations on the railway transport
- Automatic locomotive alarm
Notes
- ↑ PVLK