Part 9: Level crossings

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3  Risk assessment/ALCAM

3.1  Introduction

The Australian Level Crossing Assessment Model (ALCAM) is a safety assessment tool used to help prioritise disparate level crossings according to their comparative safety risk. It provides a rigorous defensible process for decision making for road and pedestrian level crossings, as well as a method to help determine the optimum safety improvements for individual sites.

At the May 2003 Australian Transport Council (ATC) meeting, all state and territory transport ministers agreed to adopt this innovative method of risk assessment. ALCAM is currently applied across all Australian states and territories and is overseen by a committee of representatives from these states and territories to ensure its consistency of development and implementation.

ALCAM has been adopted for use in New Zealand. All level crossings throughout New Zealand will undergo an ALCAM assessment. These will be undertaken through a project jointly funded by ONTRACK and the NZ Transport Agency and should involve the appropriate rail access provider and road controlling authority.

The ALCAM assessment includes both road and pedestrian level crossings.

An outline of the ALCAM process is included in Appendix D.

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