A Study on Restructuring Railway Safety and Investigation Committee in Taiwan

• Main Authors: Ping-Hun Chiu, 邱品翰
• Other Authors: Yung-Hui Chou
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2005
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/88946522644872194765

碩士 === 逢甲大學 === 交通工程與管理所 === 93 === When a railway accident occurred in Taiwan area, there are many railway authorities will proceed the investigation and examination of the accident, such as the Railway Safety Committee (RSC) for Taiwan Railway Administration (TRA), The Traffic Bureau of Taipei City Government for Taipei Rapid Transit Corporation (TRTC), The Chiayi Forrest District Office of Taiwan Forestry Bureau for the Alishan Forest Railway. Meanwhile, the Taiwan High Speed Railway (THSR) and Kaoshiung MRT are under constructing now, so that these railway organizations don’t have the specific RSC yet. From literature reviews, many countries had founded the independent RSC to investigate the railway accident, such as the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSC) of the United States of America, the Canadian Transportation Accident Investigation and Safety Board (CTAISB), the Aircraft and Railway Accidents Investigation Commission (ARAIC) of Japan, the Rail Accident Investigation Branch (RAIB) of the United Kingdom, and the Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB). The purposes of RSC of each country are to prevent the railway accident and improve the railway safety. However, when an accident occurred in Taiwan, the accident will be investigated by the internal RSC of the railway authorities. Therefore, there still have many responsible accidents, so that the present RSC is not suitable. The methodologies of this study are literature review; analysis of the background of revolution, relevant laws, organization structures, organizational functions, investigation procedures, and the publication of accident report, etc.; uses the expert questionnaires investigation, (there are 25 out of 32 effective questionnaires.) then selects the Fuzzy Analytic Hierarchy Process (FAHP) and Technique for Order Preference by Similarity to Ideal Solution (TOPSIS) to analyze the questionnaires. The Hierarchy structure contains one objective, four evaluation levels, eleven evaluation criteria, and three alternatives. The objective of this study is to discover the best alternative for reorganization of RSC in Taiwan area. The result shows that set up a new RSC in the Ministry of Communication and Transportation (MOTC) is the preferable alternative. If this alternative will be accepted by the MOTC, not only increase the investigation creditability of railway safety, but also improve the prevent function of railway safety.