Automatic Railway Track Pedestrian Crossing

Abstract

This paper presents a design of an Automatic railway crossing for passengers. In this model we have designed a railway crossing platform which is located over the railway tracks and only operates when there is no train on the platform. The two sensors present on either side of the platform sense the incoming or outgoing train. They then send signals to the microcontroller to close or open the automatic platform respectively. The major limitation in current railway infrastructure is that it needs to be updated to cope up with the growing number of passengers. This model aims to do just that.