Traction of Carriages

Routing of Railway Carriages

In the context of making timetables for railway companies the following railway carriage routing problem occurs. Given a timetable containing rail links with departure and destination times/stations and the composition of the trains, nd a routing of railway carriages such that always the needed carriages are available if a train departs. We will present a local search approach for this routing ...

Bugs in Railway Carriages

Sir,?With reference to Major Cornwall's letter in the February number of the Indian Medical Gazette, I would state that Hydrocyanic Gas has been used for some years to cleanse from bugs the sleeping carriages on the Cape Government Railways. Reference to this will be found in the report of the Government Entomologist of the Cape of Good Hope for the year 1901. The results were satisfactory and ...

Dynamic Weighing System of Railway Carriages

− The Dynamic Railway Diagnostics system (DRD) is a DSP-based measurement system, that analyses and stores the deformation signal of the rail caused by a passing train. The weight of the carriage is calculated by signal processing methods, by digital signal processors. This architecture makes the system capable of performing also other signal processing algorithms on this signal, e.g. faulty wh...

Routing of Railway Carriages: A Case Study

In the context of organizing timetables for railway companies the following railway carriage routing problem occurs. Given a timetable containing rail links with departure and destination times/stations and the composition of the trains, find a routing of railway carriages such that the required carriages are always available when a train departs. We will present a local search approach for thi...

Remedy for the Bugs in Railway Carriages