In the current situation, the automobile has become the main means of locomotion. It allows traveling long distances, encouraging urban sprawl. To counteract this trend, the train is often proposed as an alternative to the car. Simultaneously, the favoring of urban development around public transport nodes such as railway stations is one of the main issues of the coordination between urban plan...

A system analysis approach is presented for investigation of train operations in railway stations based on network, timetable and train detection data. The estimated blocking times, buffer times and track occupancies are compared with real operations data recorded automatically by track circuits. Statistical analysis of train operations between two Dutch major railway stations in The Hague clea...

Crime on the railways in Britain is an increasing concern for train operating companies, the British Transport Police (BTP), passengers, and local residents. Significantly, rail users consistently perceive their risks from crime to be considerably higher than official crime statistics indicate, having a negative affect on levels of patronage. This article presents an exploratory study of passen...

We propose railway line planning optimization models that determines the frequency of each train so that it can meet passenger origindestination demands while minimizing the related costs. Most line planning models assume that all trains on a supply network stop at all intermediate stations. However to minimize passenger travelling time and provide train service to as many stations as possible,...

By taking the super-long railway tunnel as the object of research, based on setting problems of emergency stations adopted by super-long railway tunnels, from the viewpoint of people's safe evacuation, several aspects were studied, such as the mode of evacuation and rescue by adopting emergency station, the number and interval of the cross passage, and the people's safe evacuation time under di...

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 ...

Our goal in this study is to examine the feasibility for analyzing and visualizing passenger flows using laser scanners in a railway station. A network of laser scanners is located on different places and scan pedestrian's feet at a horizontal plane about 16 cm above the ground. Motion trajectories are extracted from the laser points on moving feet. They are analyzed to find the pattern of pass...

In this research it was considered the particular case of a railway problem, specifically, the construction of orders delivery schedule for one locomotive plying among three railway stations. In this paper it was suggested a polynomial algorithm and were shown the results of a computing experiment.

In this paper we consider the problem of routing trains through railway stations. This problem occurs as a subproblem in a project which the authors are carrying out in cooperation with the Dutch railways. The project involves the analysis of future infrastructural capacity requirements in the Dutch railway network. Part of this project is the automatic generation and evaluation of timetables. ...