Modeling the Safety Conditions of a Railway Line: The Case of Ethio-Djibouti Railway
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2023-07
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Addis Ababa University
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The Ethio- Djibouti railway line run from Addis Ababa to the port city of Djibouti (Negad). The construction of this rail infrastructure is essential for the economic growth and development of both countries. However, after the operation start the Ethio- Djibouti railway line faced so many challenges due to different safety issues that challenge the train speed to travel at less than the designed speed.
This thesis concerns identifying and setting countermeasures for the major safety problem by developing a model. Safety problems are incidents that lead to accidents, collisions, and death. This is done by taking previous data, questionnaire results, and field data from video cameras that were installed on the train (CCTVs if any) and locating the major Land use accident analysis area by using QGIS and then developing a solution on the major accident locations. From other literature underpasses, overpasses, or providing fences on the railway crossing and implementing government laws are considered the major solution to prevent safety issues on railway property. So by considering the Ethiopian peopleās culture of living, developing new countermeasures are taken to solve the issues on the Ethio- Djibouti railway.
Finally from this thesis, the extra expense cost by the Ethiopian Railway Company is deducted and solved. Once safety problems are solved the Compensation cost, unplanned purchasing cost, and also maintenance costs will be reduced, especially the compensation cost for the mortality of animals and person will be reduced once the location is identified providing the possible measures for the find out problems.
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Ethio-Djibouti Railway, Safety Conditions, Modeling, Railway Line