Public Views Sought On Railway Station Security

How Far Should Stations Go To Ensure Your Security?

Anyone over the age of 18 who uses public transport can complete an online survey (www.securestation.eu/survey.html) covering issues such as staffing levels, CCTV, lighting, public announcements, reporting of suspicious packages, time to access platforms, cost, comfort, luggage restrictions and baggage screening.

The aim is to find out the priorities of the travelling public in designing an efficient and secure transport system.

"Changes to increase security often go unnoticed by the public, but some can be more intrusive, perhaps bringing delay or a loss of privacy," said Dr David Fletcher from the University of Sheffield’s Faculty of Engineering, one of the UK partners in the project.

"Working across the EU we’re finding out which station security options have greatest public acceptability, so we’re asking for input from transport users to find out what people really think."

Work is also taking place with transport operators across the EU to find out the business consequences of different security options, and current guidelines across different counties are being compared.

The project is considering both active measures, such as luggage screening or increased CCTV, and passive measures, such as improvements to the layout, design and materials of the buildings themselves.

"Although it’s easy to assume any measure is worth taking if it increases passenger security," explained Dr Fletcher, "the reality is that a balance has to be found to improve security while avoiding disproportionate impact on people’s daily journeys."

Co-researcher from the University of Sheffield, Dr Emma Carter, explained: "Options such as increasing CCTV coverage, employing a greater number of security personnel or good station design are all ways to improve security. Each option will vary in cost, effectiveness and perceived loss of privacy by passengers. If the survey shows that privacy is more important to passengers than cost, for example, then this could influence how attractive particular security options are for the railway business."

The University of Sheffield team are working on the SecureStation project alongside architects, defence specialists, risk management consultants and transport operators from across Europe. The Sheffield researchers are using the latest modelling techniques to understand the flow of air and fumes in station environments, while other partners are modelling pedestrian behaviour during evacuation and shock waves from explosions, drawing implications from their findings to feed into station design guidelines. Other areas being studied include fire resistance, blast resistance, perimeter security and station layouts to make it easier to spot suspicious packages.

Source: sheffield

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