The Role of the Railway Traffic in the City of Rijeka as a Centre of historical, cultural and traffic diversity and connections

Abstract

From the aspect of railway safety, the technical level of safety and training of railway workers is at a high level. Analyses of extraordinary events in railway traffic reveal that the largest number of serious accidents are caused by other people. These are people who are not directly involved in rail transport, such as railway workers or passengers. For decades, railway companies in Croatia have been carrying out preventive actions to inform the public, such as the “Train is always faster” campaign. Occasionally, the preventive actions are linked to events outside of the railway system. One of them is the promotion of Rijeka as the European Capital of Culture in 2020. The city of Rijeka is a centre of historical, cultural, but also traffic diversity and connections. Transport connections refer to the Port of Rijeka and the Mediterranean Corridor. This one-year event was an excellent opportunity to raise the level of safety and culture in railway transport. The main thesis of this paper was that urban, artistic intervention on railway facilities in Rijeka can be based on modern guidelines of socially responsible business and sustainable development. First of all, it was necessary to make an analysis of the condition of railway facilities on which it was possible to carry out urban artistic intervention. These are railway bridges, railway roads and pedestrian crossings, railway fences, and railway and other buildings. To do so we used the method of observing and photographing the existing situation.