Rolling Stock Stopping for Different Railway Line Speeds and Different Coefficients of Usable Grip: a Case Study

In Europe, one of the densest rail networks is in the Czech Republic. There are approximately 9,580 km of railway tracks with almost 9,000 rail crossings. The issue of safety at railroad crossings is present for several decades. The fact is that we can find different types of security devices on the crossings, from the simplest - securing devices is supplemented with the barriers, to the safest ones - extra-level crossing between the road and the railroad. The aim of this article is to analyze the viewing conditions at selected railway crossings with the traffic light securing device and to assess whether these ratios are safe for the passage in case of the traffic light securing device failure or in case of noncompliance with the determined rules by the driver.