A NEW PASSENGER ORIENTED PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENT FRAMEWORK FOR PUBLIC RAIL TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS

New Concepts for Fire Protection of Passenger Rail Transportation Vehicles

Recent advances in guided ground transportation, fire test methods, and hazard analysis necessitate re-examination of requirements for fire safety. Several studies have indicated nearly random ability of current tests to predict actual fire behavior. A comparison of the approaches used in the United States, Germany, and France is presented. With the strengths and weaknesses of current methods f...

Performance-based Technology Scanning for Intercity Rail Passenger Systems

Performance-Based Technology Scanning (PBTS) is a methodology for identifying areas where new technologies can have greatest performance benefits in terms of reducing costs, increasing market share, and achieving higher profitability. New technologies, however exciting, are germane only if important improvements in performance are realized. Utility analyses quantify the impact that technology c...

Dynamic pricing for passenger groups of high-speed rail transportation

The widespread high-speed rail has become an important transportation mode for tourists in China, who travel primarily in groups. With more attractive price, railway operators may be able to expand ridership, improve customer satisfaction, and ultimately increase revenue. The traditional pricing method for passenger groups, however, is relatively simple, inflexible, which may lead to profit los...

An Object-Oriented Framework for Measurement Systems

Abstract Measurement systems are of increasing importance for manufacturing, due to high automation level of production processes. Although most measurement systems have much in common and are expensive to construct, these systems are often developed from scratch, hardly reusing the available designs and implementations. To address this, we have designed and implemented an object-oriented frame...

Incorporating High Speed Passenger Rail into a Multimodal Network Model for Improved Regional Transportation Planning