Passanger Safety in the Light Railway Transit System

Research Paper (postgraduate) from the year 2016 in the subject Business economics - Operations Research, grade: 2,0, University of Mindanao, course: Production and Operations Management, language: English, abstract: This study focuses on passenger safety in the LRT system. The study identified four safety issues: train collision, suicide attempt, dragging and pinning. These safety incidents are the manifestation of safety-threatening situations which cause the clamor for the installation of safety measures. Although there are several issues on safety, LRT commuters, employees, students and workers continue to queue train stations demonstrate that they have very few choices to get to their destinations. Therefore an analysis of the accident probability provides insight on the improving LRT system.

This study aims to determine the riding public safety, through the safety incident count, in the Light Railway Transit station 1 and 2, from period 2004 to 2014. The Poisson distribution, a binomial distribution is used because of the event under study, the safety incident, is a rare occurrence, discrete event.