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title: Using Virtual Reality to Design Level Crossings
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# Using Virtual Reality to Design Level Crossings

![Using Virtual Reality to Design Level Crossings](https://www.systra.com/uk/wp-content/uploads/sites/11/2022/06/tweaked-photos-clash-detection-2380.jpg)

We believe that virtual reality technology can help improve operational and site
engineering works safety through 360º design features including aerial and sub
terrain views.

Virtual Reality technology nicely demonstrates visually all the proposed plans
or improvements as well as constraints, helping decision-makers, transport
operators and local communities better understand design and investment
decisions.

In essence virtual reality used in rail engineering can help Network Rail and
importantly other transport authorities to:

- Design comprehensively through identifying potential blind spots and physical
  constraints
- Encourage buy-in from stakeholders and local communities during consultation
- Identify underground utility or landscape constraints and conflicts

![level-crossing-vr](https://www.systra.com/uk/wp-content/uploads/sites/11/2023/04/level-crossing-vr-1024x566.jpg)

_Virtual reality helps to identify potential underground conflicts_

SYSTRA’s dedicated 
[level crossing design team](https://www.systra.co.uk/en/services/infrastructure/article/level-crossings)
 based in York has a significant portfolio of comprehensive design of all types
of level crossing from successful delivery of level crossing for major rail
schemes across the UK and Ireland..

Specific work for Level Crossings involves Ground Plans, Draft Level Crossing
Orders, Suitable and Sufficient Risk Assessments, 3D design, user census and
speed surveys, our in-house specialist team has the know-how.

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