Technological Fields and Movement for Realising Human-friendly Railway Services

Specifying and Realising Interactive Voice Services

VoiceXML (Voice Extended Markup Language) has become a major force in interactive voice services. However current approaches to creating VoiceXML services are rather low-level. Graphical representations of VoiceXML are close to the textual form of the language, and do not give a high-level description of a service. CRESS (Chisel Representation Employing Systematic Specification) can be used to ...

RailTel: Railway Telephone Services

Mathematical Rescheduling Models for Railway Services

This paper presents the review of past studies concerning mathematical models for rescheduling passenger railway services, as part of delay management in the occurrence of railway disruption. Many past mathematical models highlighted were aimed at minimizing the service delays experienced by passengers during service disruptions. Integer programming (IP) and mixed-integer programming (MIP) mode...

Requestor Friendly Web Services

Web service providers rely on the Web Service Description Language (WSDL) as the way to communicate information about an available service to a service requestor. This description or meta-data of the service is used by a service requestor to inspect the available interfaces and to access the service. In this paper, we argue that publishing a WSDL with a functional description of a service alone...

Reliability and heterogeneity of railway services

Reliability is one of the key factors in transportation, both for passengers and for cargo. This paper examines reliability in public railway systems. Reliability of railway services is a complex matter, since there are many causes for disruptions and at least as many causes for delays to spread around in space and time. One way to increase the reliability is to reduce the propagation of delays...