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4. Conclusions The analysis of previous railway accidents is an important step to understanding what went wrong and to develop new safety strategies and solutions that mitigate or reduce the impact of future occurrences. In total, there were 282 occurrences (50 accidents) in 2014 and 29 accidents in 2017 registered in the Portuguese territory. The most common type of accident, in both years, was caused by rolling movement stock, responsible for 31 accidents in 2014 and 19 accidents in 2017. At the other extreme, are the rolling stock fire accidents, with no accidents during the analyzed period. This work is of great importance for the railway sector, namely in the prevention and mitigation of accidents, in improving rescue methods and in increasing the general safety of railway transportation. Understanding the causes and impacts of past accidents is essential to ensure that the same mistakes are not made and to improve assistance methods in different types of situations. Acknowledgements This work was financially supported by: Project POCI-01-0145-FEDER-007457 - CONSTRUCT - Institute of R&D In Structures and Construction funded by FEDER funds through COMPETE2020 - Programa Operacional Competitividade e Internacionalização (POCI) – and by national funds through FCT - Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia; UID/ECI/04708/2019 - CONSTRUCT - Instituto de I&D em Estruturas e Construções funded by national funds through the FCT/MCTES (PIDDAC); and, FiberBridge – Fatigue strengthening and assessment of railway metallic bridges using fiber-reinforced polymers (POCI-01-0145-FEDER-030103) by FEDER funds through COMPETE2020 (POCI) and by national funds (PIDDAC) through the Portuguese Science Foundation (FCT/MCTES). References A cidentes ferroviários: total e por tipo de acidente . Pordata. https://www.pordata.pt/Europa/ Instituto da Mobilidade e dos Transportes (IMT). Relatório Anual de Segurança Ferroviária 2014 (Railway Annual Security Report 2014), ed 01/2015. Lisboa, 2015. Instituto da Mobilidade e dos Transportes (IMT). Relatório Anual de Segurança Ferroviária 2017 (Railway Annual Security Report 2017), ed 01/2018. Lisboa, 2018. Instituto Nacional do Transporte Ferroviário (INTF). Relatório Anual de Segurança de 2006 (Annual Security Report 2006), ed. 1.1. Lisboa, 2007. 160 na linha . Rui Cardoso in Expresso. https://expresso.pt/sociedade/2016-10-22-160-anos-na-linha, 2016 [last access 10/07/2019] Oggero, A., Darbra, R. M., Muñoz, M., Planas, E., Casal, J., 2006. A survey of accidents occurring during the transport of hazardous substances by road and rail. Journal of Hazardous Materials 133, 1-7. Martí-Henneberg, J., 2013. European integration and national models for railway networks (1840 – 2010). Journal of Transport Geography 26, 126-138. Evans, A. W., 2011. Fatal train accidents on Europe's railways: 1980 – 2009. Accident Analysis & Prevention 43, 391-401.