Increased railway patronage worldwide is putting pressure on rolling stock and infrastructure to operate at higher capacity and with improved punctuality. Condition monitoring is seen as a contributing factor in enabling this and is highlighted here in the context of rolling stock being procured with high capacity data buses, multiple sensors and centralised control. This therefore leaves scope...

In this article the writer examines the difference between the progressive form and the simple (non-progressive) form in English by applying the theory of 'susceptibility to change'. It is argued that the use of the progressive form implies a situation that is in some way susceptible to change, while the use of the non-progressive form implies that there is no idea of susceptibility to change. ...

Managing and monitoring attendance of employees is very important aspect for smooth functioning of any public or private organization. To obtain and maintain the attendance of employees in an organization has become a challenging aspect to deal with. In order to avoid human bias and direct human intervention different government institutions have implemented Biometric attendance system in educa...

A novel approach of differential evolution (DE) by incorporating the Pareto-optimal set is presented for optimising train movement through tuning fuzzy membership functions in mass transit systems. The Pareto-optimal based multiobjective optimisation approach uniquely provides a set of optimal non-dominated solutions to the decision-maker. From the set, the decision-maker selects satisfactory s...

This study focuses on the issue of choosing a means transport PilaWarsaw route by four groups recipients. Representative sample consists student, family with two children, business client and pensioner. The choice depends various criteria resulting from preferences users transport. following emerged survey results as priority: time, cost, comfort safety travel, availability transport, necessity...

Abstract Supply chain activity control is an essential part of Chain Management (SCM), ensuring compliance with customer requirements. This paper presents a case study into the SCM activities. The analysed two areas involving different SC links associated order picking, and outsourced truck freights, respectively. studied company had problems these links. An approach based on developing KPI (Ke...

In recent years, train delays have become one of the most serious problems affecting rail transportation in Japan. Although timetable planners try to improve punctuality by modifying current timetables, they few means determine how increase running time supplements or station dwelling supplements. this research, we developed a method for evaluating based on their propagation range. We also prop...