This study is aimed at developing automated methods to recognize railroad infrastructure from 3D LIDAR data. Railroad infrastructure includes rail tracks, contact cables, catenary cables, return current cables, masts, and cantilevers. The LIDAR dataset used in this study is acquired by placing an Optech Lynx mobile mapping system on a railcar, operating at 125 km/h. The acquired dataset covers ...

This paper presents findings from on ongoing research study at the University of Illinois focusing on the instrumentation and performance monitoring of railroad bridge approaches using multidepth deflectometers and strain gauges. Different sensors installed at the selected approaches are introduced, and details of the instrumentation activity are explained. Example track settlement data acquire...

This paper investigates the relationship between railroad bond defaults and nancial outcomes in the National Banking System during the Panic of 1873. Contemporary accounts and anecdotal evidence indicate the importance of a boom and bust in the railroad industry to the onset of the panic. I use comprehensive balance sheet data for national banks before and after the panic, along with detailed G...

The seismic failure behavior of railroad ballasts in response to earthquakes was analyzed using Discontinuous Deformation Analysis.Several sinusoidal waves with different frequencies and accelerations were inputted into the discontinuous numerical model of a railroad ballast ,which consists of an assemblage of polygonal crushed stones,rails,sleepers and a roadbed .The dependencies of railroad f...

Railroad and subway drivers can experience psychological trauma when trains strike or nearly miss other trains, motor vehicles, or persons or become instruments of death. Derailments, collisions, and suicides on the tracks can induce feelings of helplessness, horror, guilt, and anxiety in the drivers. Although some drivers experience acute stress disorder (ASD) or post-traumatic stress disorder...

Indian railway is one of the largest networks in country. Its motto “the life line country”, and main transport completed by railways Railroad cheapest safest means transport, but there are also certain accidents on railroad. 60% caused road failures or formation cracks road. Today’s rail systems involve manual track inspection, which cumbersome not entirely effective. However, detection correc...