The demand for safe, fast, and reliable rail services continues to be the reason for concern in all the countries across the globe. Lack of operational efficiency and reliability, safety and security issues, and aging railway systems and practices are haunting various countries to bring about a change in their existing rail infrastructure. The global rail industry struggles to meet the increasi...

Energy efficiency is one of the key factors affecting energy consumption and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. By focusing on China’s transport sector, this study comprehensively reviews and compares the energy efficiency performance of passenger vehicles, light-duty commercial vehicles, commercial road transport, commercial water transport, aviation transport and railway transport, and identifie...

Timetabling for railway services often aims at optimizing travel times passengers. At the same time, restricting assumptions on passenger behavior and modeling are made. While research has shown that discrete choice models suitable to estimate distribution of passengers routes, this not been considered in timetabling yet. We investigate how integrate a into an optimization framework present two...

Passenger rail transport market share has been drastically reduced in the last fifty years. The reforms were aimed at opening the market of railway services and development of competition in the railway sector in order to obtain the benefits of “market forces” and reduction of interventions in the railway sector. Determination of the level of reform often causes confusion and conflicting opinio...

Simulation methods are widely used in railway planning and operation. However, at the moment there are no applicable solutions in the process simulation for a smooth transition among different infrastructure levels on the basis of a unified structure with consistent algorithm. In this paper, a multi-scale simulation model is designed with consideration of the level of detail of the investigated...

The subject of the study is architectural and urban planning features Class II stations on section Trans–Siberian Railway - Ussuriyskaya (the historical name line), most remote from Moscow St. Petersburg. article discusses final route – Vladivostok Khabarovsk during years construction in first operation time frame can be conditionally considered 1891 laying road, until early 1910s preparation p...

The high-speed railways have made rapid developments in recent years. Fulfilling passenger demand and providing precise train services are the core problems to be solved railway operation. This paper proposes an optimization strategy for demand-responsive transport integrate train-stop planning timetabling railways. Passenger travel information, including their origins, destinations expected de...