Passenger Stability Within Moving Railway Vehicles: Limits on Maximum Longitudinal Acceleration

Semi-autonomous Avoidance of Moving Hazards for Passenger Vehicles

This paper presents a method for semi-autonomous hazard avoidance in the presence of unknown moving obstacles and unpredictable driver inputs. This method iteratively predicts the motion and anticipated intersection of the host vehicle with both static and dynamic hazards and excludes projected collision states from a traversable corridor. A model predictive controller iteratively replans a sta...

Probabilistic Assessment of the Crosswind Stability of Railway Vehicles

The crosswind stability against overturning is a major design criterion for high speed railway vehicles. Due to the increasing interoperability in Europe it has also become an important international task. In recent years efforts have been made to derive an uniform rule in certifying railway vehicles. In this case especially probabilistic methods have been proposed which are common design crite...

Railway Passenger Service Timetable Design

The aim of this paper is to analyze and to improve the current planning process of the passenger railway service. At first, the state-of-the-art in research is presented. Given the recent changes in legislature allowing competitors to enter the railway industry in Europe, also known as liberalization of railways, the current way of planning does not reflect the situation anymore. The original p...

Control for Railway Vehicles

Passenger Interface Systems in Modern Railway Application: A Dedicated Passenger Information System for Istanbul Tramway

After 1860’s the railway systems has started to be used in urban transportation in the world. However, especially after the 1950’s, automobile usage has been increased quickly. Thus the dense of transportation has started to move from railway systems to the ones with rubber tire vehicles in Istanbul. Traffic density in urban transportation has started to be experienced since 1950 with the incre...