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The Point and Call System on Rail Lines

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The point and call method is meant to improve safety on rail lines. Japan did extensive behaviora research to come up with this system. The workers stationed alongside the train, point and call out that it's all clear tat no one's caught in a door. And the conductor points forward before starting that.

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