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Assessment of the Perspective Ratios in Rail Crossings as an Important Evaluation Factor of Rail Crossings

Appl. Sci. 2022, 12(15), 7489; https://doi.org/10.3390/app12157489
by Milan Dedík 1,*, Jaroslav Mašek 1, Jozef Gašparík 1 and Vladimír Ľupták 2
Reviewer 1: Anonymous
Reviewer 2: Anonymous
Appl. Sci. 2022, 12(15), 7489; https://doi.org/10.3390/app12157489
Submission received: 28 June 2022 / Revised: 14 July 2022 / Accepted: 20 July 2022 / Published: 26 July 2022

Round 1

Reviewer 1 Report

The present study discussed the issue of rail crossing. The topic is interesting and of significance. Generally, the manuscript was organised well. It can be considered for publication. Here are two suggestions:

(1) The section 2.2 literature review is suggested to move to introduction part. Combined the the existing researches, the research gap and motivation of this study should be stated.

(2) The conclusion part should be simplified. It is suggested to list the main conclusions by items.

 

Author Response

Please see the attachment.

 

Best regards.

M. Dedík

Author Response File: Author Response.docx

Reviewer 2 Report

The authors have presented some preliminary work in assessing perspective ratios in railway lines as a safety factor. While the topic is highly relevant, the paper needs to be re-worded and re-structured extensively.  Some of my comments are as follows:

1. English language in the paper needs rigorous formatting. Phrases like "The issue of rail crossings is currently very actual topic.." in the abstract and throughout the paper need to be re-worded so that the meaning is correctly conveyed to the readers.

2. The abstract needs to be re-worded. The authors point out the perspective ratio in the rail crossings as a key safety factor but nowhere in the abstract do the authors mention why. 

3. In the introduction, the authors have not mentioned any previous literature which have dealt with perspective ratios and why this study is important. The logical flow as to why this was chosen as the study factor is missing and needs to be added with references in the introduction. 

4. References to the statistics presented in Section 2.1 are missing.

5. It would help the flow of the paper if Section 2.2 was added as part of the literature or described immediately after the introduction. The contribution of this paper would then make it easier for the reader to follow. 

6. The itemized list in Section 2.3 needs to be re-arranged where each method is specified in bold. Appropriate references need to be added to the methods. 

7. In Section 3.1 the authors re-iterate that the perspective ratios in rail crossings are considered the most important and significant. However, no supporting literature is cited to support this statement. 

8. Are equations 1 - 8 derived in this paper? Figures representing the quantities s_r, s_b, s_z will be beneficial in following the derivation.

Author Response

Please see the attachment.

 

Best regards.

M. Dedík

Author Response File: Author Response.docx

Round 2

Reviewer 2 Report

The authors have addressed all the comments from the previous rounds and have improved the overall quality of the paper. 

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