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European Rail Infrastructure Managers (EIM)

• ERA seminar on Trespassers on railway lines and
  suicides
• Policies and best practices in the prevention of
  trespassing and other incidents in the EU
• Michael Robson
• Secretary General
• 03 April 2008

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European Rail Infrastructure Managers (EIM)

• Created in April 2002.
• 11 members Finland, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, the
  Netherlands, Belgium, Italy, the UK, France,
  Portugal, Spain (and Slovenia until recently)
• 52 of EU27 lines
• 61 of EU27 rail passengers
• 40 of EU27 rail freight
• Social dimension direct and indirect employment
  of over 300.000.
• Total investments of 12.5bn (2006 fig.)

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• Jernbaneverket (JBV) - Norway

• Indicators
• JBV has indicators for the total number of
  trespassers, the number of killed trespassers and
  of suicides.
• JBV uses the indicators to find the "hot spots"
  and where to take specific actions.
• Prevention
• JBV builds (and maintains) fences in densely
  populated areas in order to prevent trespassing.
• Action
• Where there are hot spots JBV typically takes
  different additional information measures
  (directed at parents, school etc.)
• JBV reports trespassing to the police
• In Norway there are approx. 10 suicides involving
  railway each year currently no particular hot
  spots.
• These cases are given little or no media
  attention and apart from surveillance JBV does
  not have any particular measures in place.

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• Banverket (BV) - Sweden

• Trials with camera surveillance
• Investment in the trial was a little less than
  1 million Euro (7 million SEK)
• Annual cost for vandalism has gone from more than
  100 000 Euro to almost zero.
• Key success factors
• The concept has a high degree of reliability.
• It is not necessary to have constant monitoring.
• Professional operators with the right training
  and competence.

..but more to come later in the seminar..
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• RHK - Finland

• The impact of these accidents rarely impact or
  damage the infra.
• But to the train traffic itself the impact is
  bigger. Generally the whole traffic stops in this
  rail for 0,5 - 1,5 hours. The number of death in
  suicides and illegal trespassing in about 50
  persons/per year.
• ..but more to come later in the seminar..

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• Rete Ferroviaria Italiana (RFI) - Italy

• Impact on the business of RFI
• The impact of this phenomenon on RFIs business
  is quantified through the following indicators
• Number of suicides
• Number of run over
• Minutes of delay caused by run over/suicides

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• Rete Ferroviaria Italiana (RFI) - Italy

• 2. Policies, measures
• We can distinguish three different lines of
  intervention
• Prevention, through monitoring specific
  situations of people trespassing. This monitoring
  is activated according to the reports of the
  territorial security structures. In this case the
  objective is to act on the causes of trespassing
  through infrastructural interventions, specific
  surveillance, investigations, presence of RFI
  security personnel in occasion of extraordinary
  events.
• Customer awareness to correct behaviour near the
  railway line. (e.g. schools, public places) .
• Developing synergies between the RFI structures,
  the police force, the judicial authority in order
  to speed up the intervention, the surveys, the
  removal of the remains.

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• Adif - Spain

• Suicides
• 2005 162, 2006 189, 2007188
• Trespassing
• 2005 55, 200643, 2007 58
• To minimise these numbers, Adif invests in the
  building of underpasses in the stations and in a
  Hedge / Fencing Plan as part of the Spanish
  General Interest Railway Network.

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• ProRail the Netherlands

• Measures reduce the number of train affecting
  disturbances (TAO).
• Physical measures help to reduce the number of
  TAO caused by third parties by 49.
• Surveillance by mandated staff (mandated to
  perform some police tasks) contribute for a large
  part of this reduction
• Communications is the other particularly
  effective measure
• The cost of a TAO is assessed to be 4,000 Euro.
• ProRail has 3630 TAOs caused by third parties.
  The damage is therefore around 14.5 million Euros.

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• ProRail the Netherlands

• Posters campaign targeting children
• Website
• http//www.pazzup.nl/

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• Réseau Ferré de France (RFF) France

• Impact of trespassing
• In terms of accidents and fatalities
• Trespassing Between 40 and 50 accidents per
  year of which around 20 results in deaths
• Suicides around 350 suicides and attempted
  suicides per year
• Mitigation Measures
• RFF is implementing a Network wide policy of
  which the objective is to prevent third parties
  to trespass on the railway premises. It relies on
  the following steps
• Situational risk evaluation

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• Réseau Ferré de France (RFF) France

• Mitigation Measures cont.ed
• Hierarchisation of areas according to result of
  step 1, and subsequent prioritisation of
  mitigation measures accordingly
• Implementation of the preventive measure
  fencing or signage  

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• Réseau Ferré de France (RFF) France

• RFF is also trying to convince the local
  authorities to play their role in
• Urban planning, maintaining the fences whenever
  they do not belong to RFF, providing means of
  crossing the track ( subways or overhead foot
  paths) if necessary.
• Helping RFF to finance fencing projects.
• Policing and communicating at the local level.
• Our safety indicators show a decrease of
  accidents in area where fencing is provided.

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• UK
• Track Off - the campaign to educate people, about
  the dangers and consequences of railway crime.

The Track Off website is owned and funded by Rail
Safety and Standards Board (RSSB).
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• UK
• Supporters of the Track Off campaign include
  RSSB, Network Rail, train operating companies,
  freight operating companies, British Transport
  Police, Office of Rail Regulation/Her Majesty's
  Railway Inspectorate and the rail unions.

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• UK

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• Network Rail UK
• Network Rail runs initiative, but no branding
  only NO MESSIN

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