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Table 3 Overview of the 11 RESTRAIL pilot tests which were designed and implemented between May 2013 and July 2014
Measure | Problem addressed | Country (Partner*) | Specific implementation | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Warning signs and posters | Trespass prevention | Spain (CIDAUT) | Valladolid Universidad station |
2 | Railway safety education programme | Spain (FFE) | Madrid and Catalonia Railway Museums; and three primary schools in Alicante | |
3 | Education in schools for 8–11 year old children | Finland (VTT) | Four schools located near the railway lines in the city of Tampere | |
4 | Video enforcement and sound warning | Finland (VTT) | Two trespassing hotspots on open track in southern Finland | |
5 | A combination of measures: fences, anti-trespass panels, video camera and communication campaign | Turkey (TCDD) | Aydin station situated near several schools, a stadium, a hospital and a shopping centre | |
6 | Mid-platform fencing | Suicide prevention | UK (UNOTT) | Three pilot areas in Great Britain around London, including 51 stations, among which 22 had some form of mid-platform fencing |
7 | Societal collaboration to prevent railway suicides | Sweden (TrV&KAU) | Skåne county in southern Sweden | |
8 | Gatekeeper programme “Train the trainers” | Germany (HMGU) | University Hospital Klinikum rechts der Isar, Department of Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy, TUM | |
9 | Gatekeeper programme: “Contact with a (possibly) suicidal person” | Netherlands (ProRail & NS) | ProRail and NS premises | |
10 | Computer Based Training (CBT) module for responding bodies | Consequence mitigation | Israel (MTRS 3) | Using a learning management system that police and law enforcement agencies could run on a standard browser |
11 | Forward Facing CCTV in trains | UK (MTRS 3) | In Great Britain on existing installations at Virgin Trains, Greater Anglia, South West Trains and South Eastern Railway |