How trains avoid collisions

Trains are an excellent way of transportation: They are comfortable, affordable, and, mostly, very safe.

However, like every other transportation system, accidents can occur. Train collisions are one type of these unfortunate accidents and can happen due to human response times and errors of judgment.

In order to avoid such accidents, engineers have developed train collision avoidance systems, also called TCAS. In this video, we will tackle the subject of train collision prevention.

Unfortunately, train collision accidents still happen from time to time all around the world. From train traffic lights to specifically developed systems, different countries have different approaches to choosing the best collision avoidance system for trains and ensuring train safety.

Most of these accidents are a result of human error, and the common ground of these train accident prevention approaches is to prevent human error to avoid accidents in the first place.

If you watch our video, you’ll see that one of the countries introduced a series of safety measures like interlocked block signaling while another one has developed and is testing an automated train protection system to minimize accidents.

By either working on developing new systems or trying to make the existing systems better, engineers and train operators are trying their best to prevent these kinds of accidents from happening ever again. If you are curious about how these systems work and why engineers and train operators take this issue quite seriously, be sure to check our video!

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