Railways in Massachusetts

Safety Functions in Railways

There are several ways to describe and structure safety rules for railways, and a few examples are given in the report. A tentative holistic framework for describing safety features in relation to safety rules is presented. The approach has been applied on rules needed to regulate the communication between different railway organisations and other parties.

Public Utility Characteristics of Railways in India

To serve Indian economy railways carry different category of freight traffics like coal, iron ore, food grains, steel, fertilizer and mineral oil, etc. Dispersal of some of these freights is limited compared to other traffics which ambit of outreach is quite large. Food grains and fertilizers are such freights which reach wider section of population, transporting thereby railways carry off its ...

High-speed Railways in Germany

When the railway appeared as a new means of transportation in the first half of the 19th century, its top speed of 30 to 40 km/h was considered dangerous. In Germany, where Adler transported two barrels of beer between Nuremberg and Fürth in 1835 as the first German rail freight, physicians warned people against such perilous adventures and farmers were worried that their cows grazing alongside...

Safety climate in Australian railways

On Generalized Random Railways

We consider a random generalized railway defined as a random 3-regular multigraph where some vertices are regarded as switches not allowing traffic between any pair of attached edges. It is shown that the probability that the generalized railway is functioning is linear in the proportion of switches. Thus there is no threshold phenomenon for this property.