Analysis of public digital accident data

RailTech 2017 Utrecht

Speaker: Mathias Linden
 University of Koblenz-Landau

Innovation Management
Area of Competence of the Institutes in Faculty 4

Faculties of the University of Koblenz-Landau

Institutes of the Faculty 4: Computer Science
Information Management
Organization
Cooperation Management
Knowledge Management
Technology Management
Business Process Management
Risk Management
Active Vision
Autonomous Transportation
Semantic Web
and many more

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CCRDMT

Research Activities:
Interviews with European infrastructure
operators on the use of Wayside
Monitoring Technologies
Development of the GRADE railway
accident database
Basic research in the field of Predictive
Maintenance

2014 2015 2016 2017

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Motivation

Efficiency
Availability

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Safety
Accident Cost Analysis
So far, over 43,000 railroad accidents have
been recorded and around 1.5 million
records have been integrated
The database provides evaluation options
and analysis options for the visualization
of the accident data and costs

Opportunities through GRADE:

Economic assessment of railway
safety technologies
Analyzing accident causes and
developing innovations
Detecting weaknesses in railway
http://ccrdmt.uni-koblenz.de/ vehicles and infrastructure

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Procedure Data Preprocessing

Event
Analysis of the Accident Reports
of the National Investigation Consequences & Damages
Bodies
Tagging the relevant information
Digitization process Accident Cause

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 Safety Accident
Technology X Cause 1.1.

Accident
Cause 1.2.

Accident
Cause 1.3.

Accident
Cause

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Benefits

Assessment of
Safety Technologies
Business Cases

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Outlook Grade+

Human

Safety

Cause
Prevention (Predicitve)
Maintenance
Technology Organisation

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 www.ccrdmt.com

www.grade-rail.com

M. Sc. Mathias Linden

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