%0 Journal Article
%T Safety during exchange of passengers in trams
%A Ciępka, Piotr
%A Śleziak, Bogusław
%A Mandzij, Tadeusz
%J Paragraph on the Road
%V 2023
%R 10.4467/15053520PnD.23.010.18668
%N 3/2023
%P 79-94
%K Tram, stop, platform, exchange of passengers, radius of road curve, height of platform
%@ 1505-3520
%D 2023
%U https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/paragraf-na-drodze/article/bezpieczenstwo-podczas-wymiany-pasazerow-w-tramwajach
%X Based on three real–life accidents the impact of tram platform design on the safety of passengers during their exchange is discussed. In one of the examples a tram stop which did not meet the public use requirements despite having been built following applicable building regulations is described. On this stop the tram driver was not able to observe the entire side of the tram cars and passenger exchange taking place due to the radius of the curve on which the stop was placed. The other two cases illustrate events which happened after the height of the platforms was increased relative to the track level in order to adapt them to new types of tram cars while the older ones were still being used. On these stops the lower edge of doors of the new low-floor cars was close to the edge of the platform while in the case of the older types of the cars the distance between these edges threatened the safety of boarding or disembarking passengers.