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Technology driven insights into passive level crossing risk

Seeing What We’ve Been Missing: Technology-Driven Insights into Passive Level Crossing Risk, examines the safety challenges associated with passive level crossings, particularly in regional settings where traditional protection measures are often impractical. Despite their prevalence across the network, passive crossings continue to present complex and persistent safety risks. The presentation highlights the need for solutions that are both cost-efficient and scalable, and argues that achieving this requires a deeper understanding of risk at the individual level crossing. Existing frameworks, such as ALCAM, provide valuable high-level assessments but have limitations. They largely identify risk only after crashes or near-misses occur and do not adequately capture the behavioural and contextual factors that influence how road users interact with passive crossings. As a result, many precursors to unsafe outcomes remain unobserved. This presentation discusses how technology-driven monitoring and data analytics can address these gaps by revealing behavioural patterns and environmental attributes that drive risk. By moving from reactive, event-based assessment to proactive, behaviour-informed insight, these approaches enable more targeted interventions and support smarter, evidence-based investment decisions to improve safety at passive level crossings.