HAZARD IDENTIFICATION METHOD APPLIED TO THE ANALYSES DOMAIN WITH A VIRTUAL FREIGHT FACILITY

Abstract

The share of rail transport in transportation of goods in Poland has been declining for many years. The chance to reverse this negative trend lies in an intermodal freight transport, which takes advantage of multiple modes of transportation. It is widely used in Western Europe. However, in Poland, there are not enough railroad terminals which would enable handling of containers. There are four times less such terminals in Poland than in Germany. One way to quickly enable access to more terminals is applying the British idea of loading and unloading on running lines. This idea proposes handling of containers directly on tracks between stations, on less used railway lines. Introduction of such service in Poland would require prior evaluation of risks associated with a change in the railway system, in accordance with the EU Regulation 402/2013 (CSM RA). One of key elements of this evaluation is a correct identification of hazards. Especially for the requirements of CSM RA, a method of identification of hazards was developed. It enables searching the analyses domain for hazards generated by the introduced change. This work presents the ideas of this method of identification of hazards and shows some results of using this method for the change in the railway system, which consists in establishing a virtual freight facility at a sample location on the railway line.

Keywords: hazard identification method, analyses domain, railway freight facility, container transportation