A train accident prevention system.

Abstract

The increased need and growth in the railway sector has resulted in an increase in the train traffic density across the East Africa especially in Kenya, from Mombasa to Uganda due to increased business and travel of people. This has resulted in the increase in the number of accidents involving trains especially in town areas where several activities are taking place and lots of traffic happening. In this report, the proposed system includes features which prevent train accidents cause highlighted inside this report. It includes automatic gate controls at the road railway junctions RF based and the automatic train slowdown at detection of an obstacle ahead to avoid severe collision using ultrasonic sensing. This system makes use of ultrasonic sensors and RF transceiver among other components.

Keywords: Train gate control, RF, Ultrasonic sensor, automatic slowdown