In recent years, there have been requirments for a transport environment that will foster comfortable and safe town development. Studies on urban activities in aging societies with falling birthrates and effective use of public transport modes in addressing environmental problems have become particularly important issues. Public transport is of great importance, especially from the perspective ...

A methodology for the classification of railway passenger stations was developed in this study. Four groups of factors are defined to study the characteristics of the station: potential of the town, importance of the town, infrastructural factors, and characteristics of passengers. In the research we investigated 18 factors and studied 98 passenger stations of railway network in Bulgaria. The m...

Natural phenomena like earthquakes, landslides, avalanches or mud flows can cause severe damages of railway tracks. Today’s monitoring concepts either focus on a permanent monitoring of known problematic sites or an epochwise measurement of the railway track with special measurement cars. In this paper we present a new approach for continuous monitoring of railway tracks over long distances. Th...

In the railway domain, an electronic interlocking is a computerised system that controls the railway signalling components (e.g. switches or signals) in order to allow a safe operation of the train traffic. Interlockings are controlled by a software logic that relies on a generic software and a set of application data particular to the station under control. The verification of the application ...

Train Routing is a problem that arises in the early phase of the passenger railway planning process, usually several months before operating the trains. The main goal is to assign each train a stopping platform and the corresponding arrival/departure paths through a railway station. It is also called Train Platforming when referring to the platform assignment task. Railway stations often repres...

A 30.5km railway will soon be completed that links the Northwestern part of the territory with the metro area of Hong Kong. This HK$46 billion investment in the West Rail projects will form a major railway strategic and territorial development for the coming 20 years of Hong Kong. There are nine stations provided within the alignment of the West Rail, 6 of which are located in the northwestern ...

This paper deals with the use of Petri nets in modelling railway network and designing appropriate control logic for it to avoid collision. Here, the whole railway network is presented as a combination of the elementary models – tracks, stations and points (switch) within the station including sensors and semaphores. We use generalized mutual exclusion constraints and constraints containing the...