Assessing Railway Property Theft and Developing Engineering Protection Mechanisms: A case Study of Addis Ababa Light Railway Transport Service Enterprise and Ethio-Djibouti Railway
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2024-06
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Addis Ababa University
Abstract
Ethio-Djibouti railway line run from Addis Ababa to Negad, the port of Djibouti. Ethiopia
also built light railway transport in Addis Ababa, capital city of Ethiopia. The construction of this
rail infrastructure is essential for the development of both countries. However, after the operation
start both the Addis Ababa light railway transport service and Ethio- Djibouti railway lines faced
so many challenges due to different safety and security issues including theft on their property that
challenge the transport service. The seriousness of theft in railway industry cannot be ignored. It
highly deserves immediate notice and action. The curse's accompanying damages to the railway
property are irreversible. Theft related issues cause businesses to lose millions of dollars' worth
of property. This paper aimed to identify and set solutions to these major problems by developing
protection mechanisms. The study further identifies the characteristics and the leading causes that
motivates criminals to railway property theft. Quantitative methodological approach was adopted
to accomplish this work. Both primary and secondary data were used as a source of information
for the study. Primary data was taken from participants by using questionnaire survey. Secondary
data was taken from AALRTSE and Ethio-Djibouti railway recorded data on occurrence of theft
over the year 2018 to 2023. Quantitative analysis was conducted for both primary and secondary
data sources. There were 2233 occurrence of theft to railway assets over the study period. The
characteristics of criminals and property theft was identified. Numerous hotspot areas have been
discovered using the information. This paper also presents that availability of scrap metal
dealers and poor enforcement of law against criminals are among the top most leading cause to
railway property theft and then developing solutions to prevent this issue. Previous literatures
are failed to set solutions as the culture of the given systems. Due to the limited literatures related
to railway property theft, developing new protection mechanisms are taken to solve the issues on
railway. The findings will guide efforts to improve the safety and security of railway asset. The
study recommends that the railway industry to develop a multi-stakeholder partnership strategy.
In conclusion, the extra loss of costs by the Ethiopian railway industry is eliminated and solved.
Once the security problems are solved the maintenance costs will be reduced once the location is
identified providing the possible solution for the find out problems.
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Infrastructure, protection, railway, theft, transport