Trespassing on railway tracks is a growing problem in rail transport, with multiple causal factors, including increasing urbanisation, high-frequency rail traffic, higher volumes of traffic, etc. The predominant factor is human behaviour (lack of knowledge about trespassing, poor decision-making by road users and others). This research aims to analyse the available data to determine the frequency, patterns, and factors contributing to trespassing on railway tracks and to identify potential locations with the highest recorded trespassing. This is achieved by conducting a case study using data from various sources on trespassing from 2001 to 2023 on the Italian railway network. The methodology of this study consists of data collection on trespassing, data cleaning, and three-step analysis (description of variables used, and application of R programming language for descriptive statistics, correlation, and association analysis). The outcome of this study is the description of the data collecting process of trespassing on the Italian railway network, the identification of temporal factors, e.g., month, day, and hour of trespassing, and spatial factors, e.g., location and railway line where trespassing occurs most frequently, and a list of current and planned prevention measures on the Italian railway network. In the future, trespassing locations can be analysed according to the topology of risk.


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    Title :

    Understanding Spatial–Temporal Patterns in Trespassing on Railway Property


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    Publication date :

    2025




    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    Unknown




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