Railway level crossings (rail and road intersections) have always been hazardous places and have claimed the lives of many who misjudged the speed of an approaching train. As an innovative and safety oriented company, ALTPRO’s mission is to reduce the risk and improve the level of safety at level crossings. The ALTPRO’s solution is called […]

INDUSI (Punktförmige Zugbeeinflussung – PZB) is the most widespread automatic train stop system in the world. It has been installed on over 75 000 km of railway track just on the conventional European Railways (excluding, private operators and metro railways around the world). One of the reasons for its success is the fact that it […]

There are many small railways in Europe operating regional passenger and freight transport. Sometimes they are physically separated from main lines due to narrow gauge, which is often a case in Austria. Their specific characteristics are: short trains, many small stations, short distance between stations and short headway between trains. Due to limited financial resources […]

Railway level crossings have since they were first built, been hazardous, and have claimed the lives of many who misjudged the speed of an approaching train. Now, in an attempt to improve safety at level crossings, a Croatian company, Altpro, has developed an advanced electronic level crossing safety system that has been extensively tested and […]

Abstract: Different solutions and applications related to modernization and upgrading of the already existing level crossing protection systems are presented in this article, in terms of replacing the old train detection systems with the new ones (based on the state-of-art modern train detection solutions) designed for SIL4 safety level according to the standards EN 50126, […]

Summary: There are many level crossing systems that use punctual double-channel wheel detection for switching on/off the level crossing, usually combined with short audio frequency track circuit, loop or axle counting section for detection of the train stopping on the road area. Today, there are even better ways to activate/deactivate the level crossing, for example […]