Railway safety performance: the adoption of Common Safety Target

Aim of the study is the individuation of the problems and criticalities caused by the introduction of the Directive 2004/49/CE relative to the railways safety. The European Railway Agency has been the mandate to identify the actual safety level of Member States. The role of ERA is to measure the safety rules, to harmonize and to supervise the railway safety. Particular attention is placed to the importance of incidentality data collection. Obstacle is the absence of a common approach to definition (e.g. : serious injury, etc.) and classification. Other critical point is represented by lack of homogeneity and disaggregation of data collection.