While the progress of predictive maintenance has been rising in various application fields and several feasibility studies prototypes have developed, operational implementation requires a more flexible adaptive scheduling predicted interventions. Contrary to traditional preventive tasks that are typically known long advance, may require very short-term schedule changes which also affecting oper...

The publication updates the issue of wagon repair in modern conditions and highlights main problems associated with method organization work. Low productivity is due to outdated equipment worn-out rolling stock, poor training staff involved. article contains provisions changing repair, calculating possibility loading production positions, program repairing wagons, determining number ways their ...

The research we conducted and describe in this thesis involves the autonomous discovery of the composition of a train. Using wireless sensor nodes equipped with 3D accelerometers, we aim to use motion as the common context for the correlation of the wagons behind a train. The draft of the European Rail Track Management System (ERTMS) level 3 specifies a train should be able to be aware of the c...

The resurgence of pertussis in the United States and many other countries in the world has become a major problem, with no immediate solution in sight. In 2014, the .10 000 reported cases of pertussis in California surpassed a recent previous record set in 2010 and all other records in the postvaccine era. The national experience mimics that of California, with rising numbers of cases widesprea...

We present a new model for a strategic locomotive scheduling problem arising at the Deutsche Bahn AG. The model is based on a multi-commodity min-cost flow formulation that is also used for public bus scheduling problems. However, several new aspects have to be additionally taken into account, such as cyclic departures of the trains, time windows on starting and arrival times, network-load depe...

In the range of recent years, sensing technologies has expanded widely, whereas sensor devices have become cheaper. This led to rapid expansion in condition monitoring of systems, structures, vehicles, and machinery that are using sensors. Wireless sensor networks can now be used for monitoring the railway infrastructure such as bridges, rail tracks, track beds, and many track equipment along w...

The article is dedicated to the investigation of internal and external factors affecting traffic safety railway transport, including researching solving ever-present issue investigating, reducing eliminating human factors, emergency situations other impacts through complex methods means. technical state wagons, one important components for in means detecting faults during their diagnostics, mak...

Train planning is the process of assigning containers to certain wagons on an intermodal train. Currently, there is limited decision support used for train planning in Australia leading to costly rehandles when loading trains. Intermodal terminals are highly integrated systems that create a difficult planning environment for computerised decision support systems. We have addressed this difficul...