Artificial Intelligence based System to Prevent Animal Accidents in the Railway Tracks

The wildlife population has been in danger due to frequent animal accidents on railway tracks. In India, animal train collisions cause an average of 20 elephant deaths every year all over the nation. At the same time railway departments are taking necessary steps to identify the cause and implement prevention methods. Despite this, lots of accidents are happening in the railway tracks near the forest areas. This problem has been addressed by proposing a well-defined technological mechanism to alert the animals to be away from the railway tracks to reduce the wildlife deaths. In this study, Machine Learning(ML) frameworks are employed to detect the animals that are coming near the railway tracks and the developed module will provide appropriate warning or signals to the animals as well as to the loco pilot.