📋 Tender Overview
Document will guide installation of protection systems according to the level of risk. The project will be put into public consultation to receive contributions.The Ministry of Transport and Communications (MTC) published the draft Guide for the implementation of protection systems at crossings at the level of streets and highways with railway tracks, with the aim of strengthening road and railway safety throughout the country.
The document, issued by Directorial Resolution No. 05-2026-MTC/18 and published in the Legal Standards supplement of El Peruano, will be open to comments to collect contributions from public entities, railway operators, concessionaire companies, regional and local governments and specialists.
The guide, prepared by the Directorate of Policies and Standards in Railway Transport of the MTC, is of a technical and indicative nature. It will serve as support for the design, implementation and management of level crossings. It proposes solutions according to the risk level of each point and promotes homogeneous criteria based on national and international good practices.
Level crossings are areas of high exposure to danger. Trains, vehicles and pedestrians interact there with different speeds, braking distances and circulation priorities. Therefore, adequate planning and specific protection measures are required, outlined in the guide. More than 600 level crossings between streets and railways have been identified in the national territory.
The document includes eleven chapters that address the management of actors, design and operation criteria, signage, pedestrian safety, hazard assessment and determination of the level of protection necessary at each crossing, as well as parameters for the evaluation of the level crossing, as well as criteria to prioritize interventions and improve decision making.
In this way, the guide will strengthen planning, reduce conflicts between modes of transport and provide technical support to local governments and railway operators. Its application will contribute to improving road and railway safety on a national scale.
The complete guide is available at the link: https://www.gob.pe/es/l/7759979. To make suggestions, comments or recommendations, interested parties will have a period of fifteen calendar days, counted from the day after publication and must write to the email normaferroviarias@mtc.gob.pe.
