Maintenance contracts have received significant attention in last ten years. It has huge potential to reduce the upfront investments in maintenance infrastructure, specialised maintenance facilities, and risk for owners through expert services provided by the original equipment manufacturers and/ or specialist maintenance providers. There is a growing trend for asset intensive Industries to out...

The modelling of passengers and pedestrians at transport facilities remains a complex issue to be addressed by industry within a transportation context. Passenger and pedestrian movements are a key component in all transport systems including public transport operations, interchange facilities and airport operations. Pedestrian performance is also a significant issue for design of retail centre...

Charges related to rail infrastructure capacity in the European rail network show great diversity and are not sufficiently transparent. This paper develops a simple and transparent methodology that takes the main aspects related to rail infrastructure capacity into consideration to give an approximated value of the maximum capacity charge (initial mark-up). The method can be used (as a basic ca...

Light Rail Transit (LRT) is a kind of rail vehicle form which includes from modern tramcars to speed transport. These vehicles go on special road, underground, floor or specific altitude. Today the number of active serving LRT systems in 50 countries is more than 400. Moreover, a forceful increase has been expected for next years. It is clear that this growing up has certain reasons. In this st...

In the current urban rail transit system, the levels of informatization and integration are not high. In order to change the traditional pattern of rail transportation operation and management, we propose an intelligent information platform of subway system based on Internet of things. Depending on the sensor nodes deployed in various functional departments of rail transport and the RFID techno...

This article presents a comparative review of the knowledge base regarding human behaviour in emergencies for both aviation and rail domains. Generic models of human behaviour in emergency situations are introduced and specific attention is then focussed on methods of behaviour prediction, exhibited behaviours in emergencies and methods of aiding evacuation across both modes of transport. Using...