Trespass Prevention Awareness Day (TRESPAD)
4th edition – June 4, 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 worldwide railway organisation, 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.
In 2021 UIC decided to set up the TreSP-Network, an international working group of experts brought together to exchange knowledge and expertise relating to Trespass and Suicide Prevention programmes, best practices, and measures to decrease the number of incidents and casualties.
Trespass and Suicide events affect the whole rail industry with an adverse impact on safety, performance, reputation, costs and efficiency as well as an impact on the health and wellbeing of staff who have to deal with the consequences. But those consequences are also felt across society as a whole. Trains delayed by trespassers make people late for important business meetings, family occasions and travel connections. As well as reducing the immediate human toll, the case for working together to prevent railway trespass or suicide is clear.
For the past three years, ILCAD and TRESPAD have been launched on consecutive days with linked conferences.
In 2025 we will be launching TRESPAD jointly with NETWORK RAIL and RSSB (Rail Safety and Standards Board) at the National Railway Museum in York, G.B. to coincide with the 200th anniversary of the first ever passenger railway. The event will be held in person and in English.
The call for abstracts is open, we would be delighted to receive proposals for presentations providing insights into the cause and motivations of trespass and suicide events in rail, approaches to prevent and manage such events and the impact of such interventions.
We are particularly interested in presentations focused on how we can help people take good decisions.
To submit an abstract to the TRESPAD 2024 Conference with a deadline fixed to 3rd March 2025 fill in the following form
Additional information on the UIC working group on trespass and suicide prevention (TreSP-Network) click here
For more information on past TRESPAD launch conferences :
- TRESPAD 2022 : 1st edition in Denver, USA click here
- TRESPAD 2023 : Warsaw, Poland click here
- TRESPAD 2024 : Launch Conference in Buenos Aires, Argentina click here
Contact at : Isabelle Fonverne