Academy of Technical and
Art Applied Studies Belgrade

Traffic Safety - Selected Chapters Course code: 218018 | 8 ECTS credits

Basic information
Level of Studies: Undergraduate applied studies
Year of Study: 1
Semester: 2
Requirements:
Goal: To acquire appropriate theoretical and practical knowledge about factors and risks that threaten traffic safety, procedures (methods) for monitoring and controlling these risks and the regulatory framework for the application of these procedures (methods).
Outcome: To enable students to properly assess the risks that threaten safety and choose the optimal measures for their control, as well as to be able to apply them efficiently and effectively.
Contents of the course
Theoretical instruction:
  1. Railway safety system, basic concepts and elements, correlative dependence with other aspects in railway traffic.
  2. Safety management system.
  3. Active and passive safety in transport and traffic.
  4. Railway traffic safety factors.
  5. Correlative dependence between individual safety factors.
  6. Normative acts of traffic safety.
  7. European railway regulatory framework.
  8. Interoperability on railway, basic concepts and requirements.
  9. Railway traffic safety management, safety methods, safety indicators, safety objectives and safety level assessment.
  10. Risk management.
  11. Monitoring and control of railway traffic safety.
  12. Research and analysis of accidents and incidents in railway traffic, causes and consequences, classification and model of their occurrence.
  13. Technical factors, human factor and other factors of railway traffic safety.
  14. Expertise of accidents and incidents.
Practical instruction (Problem solving sessions/Lab work/Practical training):
  1. The exercises are audio-graphic, graphic-analytical and field tests at stations, depots and sections of the railway. The seminary work includes the implementation of the risk assessment procedure according to the common safety method.
Textbooks and References
  1. Đuričić, R
  2. Bundalo, Z., Bezbednost železničkog saobraćaja – autorizovana predavanja, Visoka železnička škola strukovnih studija, 2017.
  3. European Railway Agency, Collection of examples of risk assessments and of some possible tools supporting the CSM Regulation, ERA/GUI/02-2008/SAF, 2009.
  4. Office of rail regulation, Common Safety Method for risk evaluation and assessment Guidance on the application of Commission Regulation (EU) 402/2013, 2015.
  5. Rail Safety and Standards Board,GE/GN8643 Guidance on Risk Evaluation and Risk Acceptance, 2014.
  6. DB Netz AG, Sicherheitsmanagementsystem der DB Netz AG, Frankfurt 2010.
  7. Rosić, S
  8. Spasojević, V., Brkić i dr., Sistem menadžmenta kavalitetom i poslovne performanse, Mašinski fakultet, Beograd, 2012.
  9. Milošević, S., Percepcije saobraćajnih znakova, Saobraćajni fakultet, Beograd, 2005.
  10. Bukljaš, Z., Elementi sigurnosti željezničkog prometa, Fakultet prometnih znanosti, Zagreb, 1999.
  11. Zakon o bezbednosti i interoperabilnosti železnice, Sl
  12. Zbornici radova sa savetovanja: Saobraćaj u vanrednim uslovima, Visoka železnička škola strukovnih studija, VŽŠ, Beograd, 2003.
Number of active classes (weekly)
Lectures: 4
Practical classes: 3
Other types of classes: 0
Grading (maximum number of points: 100)
Pre-exam obligations
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activities during lectures
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activities on practial excersises
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seminary work
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colloquium
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Final exam
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Written exam
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Oral exam
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