Railway ballast tamping operation is employed in order to restore the geometry of railway track distorted by train traffics. In this paper, based on analysis of tamping principle, the discrete element analysis model of railway ballast is created using the discrete element method, numerical simulations are performed to study the change of railway ballast compactness during tamping process. This ...

From an expanded notion of cultural heritage based on social and citizen dimensions that contribute new scopes to the complexity this area, patrimonial defense experience recorded in 1990s is analyzed, which it was intended denaturalize railway stations Central Station by changing its use functions commercial activities. This implied a reaction stop projects involved loss last terminal city. In...

Trade within Africa is at an all-time low, with a lack of optimal intermodal transportation network and high cost business serving as deterrent to trade. This research studies Intra-African ECOWAS using hierarchical spatial aggregation process identify 27 nodes. Distance-based weighted centrality measures employed TOPSIS model ranked node Economic Community West African States (ECOWAS) transpor...

New railway legislation in Sweden has increased the need for transparent access charges on the Swedish railway network. We estimate cost functions for infrastructure operation, maintenance and renewal in the Swedish national railway network, using unobserved effects models and calculate marginal costs for railway infrastructure wear and tear. We find evidence of unobserved fixed effects at a tr...

Railway capacity is not only the basic condition for the allocation of railway resources but also an index set for the evaluation of the usage of them. Sometimes the maximum theoretical results calculated according to the coefficient methodology for the capacity calculation of the Existed Chinese traditional railway (abbreviated as ECTR) would be less than those statistical results from the rea...

With the construction of high-speed railway lines in China, there are growing concerns about the rational transport cooperation between high-speed railway lines and conventional rail lines. A rational transport cooperation scheme can improve railway capacity utilization, train speed, service and the organization quality of railway transportation. The previous research mainly focused on the aspe...

The economy of China and the travel needs of its citizens depend significantly on the continuous and reliable services provided by its railway system. However, this system is subject to frequent natural hazards, such as floods, earthquakes, and debris flow. A mechanism to assess the railway system vulnerability under these hazards and the design of effective vulnerability mitigation strategies ...