International Level Crossing Awareness Day (ILCAD)
17th edition – June 5, 2025
Launch Conference at the National Railway Museum, York, G.B.
CALL FOR PAPERS
According to the UIC safety database report 2024, over 90% of all fatalities on rail infrastructure involve third parties (mainly trespassers and level crossing users).
Since June 2009 UIC, the international union of railways, with the support of the railway community around the world has spearheaded the International Level Crossing Awareness Day (ILCAD), a worldwide initiative to improve awareness of level crossing safety. About 50 countries usually take part in the ILCAD annual campaign.
Each year, a partner country hosts a launch event at which good practices and projects to improve safety and reduce the accident toll are shared.
2025 will be the 200th anniversary of the very first passenger railway in the world, so it is fitting that the ILCAD campaign will be launched in Britain – the original home of the railway.
It will be jointly hosted (in person, in English) by NETWORK RAIL and RSSB (Rail Safety and Standards Board) at the National Railway Museum in York G.B. the day after TRESPAD.
This conference attracts railway industry representatives, road authorities, academics, and many others from around the world who are working to raise awareness about the dangers surrounding level crossings.
The theme of the 2025 ILCAD launch conference will be “Helping people make good decisions”. The key areas are :
• Engineering – What technologies could help people make good decisions, raise awareness and ultimately prevent accidents at level crossings ?
• Enforcement – partnerships involving railways, local authorities and police forces to encourage responsible, safe behaviour.
• Community outreach – What are the best means of helping people (in particular vulnerable users) understand the safety risks at crossings ?
The call for abstracts is open, we would be delighted to receive proposals for presentations providing insights into the cause of level crossing collisions, approaches to prevent and manage such events and the impact of such collisions. We are particularly interested in presentations focused on how we can help people make good decisions.
To submit an abstract to the ILCAD 2025 Conference with a deadline fixed to 3rd March 2025 fill in the following form
Additional information on the UIC working group on level crossing safety (GLCN)
For more information on past ILCAD events :
• ILCAD 2018 : Zagreb, Croatia ; watch this video
• ILCAD 2019 : Amersfoort, Netherlands ; watch this video
• ILCAD 2020 and 2021 conferences were held online in English/ French/Spanish
• ILCAD 2022 : Denver, USA visit ILCAD website
• ILCAD 2023 : Warsaw, Poland click here
• ILCAD 2024 :
- On the conference in Buenos Aires, Argentina read this article
- on the ILCAD 2024 campaign read this article
Contact : Isabelle Fonverne