Despite the constantly increasing demand of passengers and goods transport in Europe, the share of railway traffic is decreasing. One major reason appears to be congestion, which in turn results in frequent delays and in a general unreliability of the system. This fact has triggered the study of efficient ways to manage railway traffic, both off-line and real-time, by means of optimization and ...

Abstract: Here city logistics terminal is defined as the facility consisting of warehouse center, marketing center, freight detaching center, distributing center and the information center. It is a link of freight transport between transport terminal such as port, railway freight station and highway entrance and the retailing facilities. The purpose of this study is to optimize the size and spa...

With the construction of on-dock rails, terminal has become an interface between maritime transport network and railway network. Terminal operators are facing some new challenges like more complicated operations scarcity storage spaces. To address this issue, managers should improve operation efficiency terminals by adjusting yard templates equipment deployment plan, which not been well studied...

Railway wireless communication has become an indispensable part to provide the reliability and safety of the railway operation as well as the improved railway services. In addition, advanced mobile communication technologies have triggered new railway customer services. Thanks to many benefits of the 4-generation mobile communication technology, long-term evolution (LTE), this technology is one...

The main design criteria of ballasted railway tracks include rail deflections, rail bending stresses, rail wheel contact stresses, sleeper bending moments and ballast sleeper contact pressures. Numerous criteria have been defined for the design of ballasted railway tracks owing to the various mechanical properties of track components and their complex interaction. Therefore, railway track desig...

The significant function of GIS technology in promoting the railway development in this information era is now attracting great attention from the Ministry of Railway and the State decision-making institutions of the P.R.China. However, until present, the GIS has not been economised on the Chinese Railway. Discussions have been made on the several critical issues in building up the railway GIS....

INTRODUCTION TRANSPORTATION of people is increasing as our society grows and the demand for railway services that can provide high-speed and high-capacity transportation is becoming greater. The number of train rides taken in Japan in 2006 was 22,243 million, more than anywhere else in the world by some margin, making Japan one of the world’s leading railway nations. A major feature of railway ...

in this paper, the main factors in the analysis of the railway concrete sleepers areinvestigated and new recommendations are made in order to improve the accuracy of the currentpractices in analysis of the railway track system. first, a comprehensive literature survey isconducted, then, fem models for a railway track system are developed and used to discuss andevaluate the assumptions commonly ...

At the beginning of 1820s. Marc Seguin and his brothers started negotiations with French government for the construction of a railway line from the Saint-Etienne coal field to the Rhone valley and the city of Lyon. This railway is the first French railway using locomotives. Because there are few papers and publications on the history of this important railway, the writers have studied about the...