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 ...

China Railway consists of eighteen regional bureaus, geographically distributed across China, with each regional bureau having their own regional Data Center. Physically distributed and managed at a regional level, the information system of China Railway is a highly complex distributed mission critical system, integrated in networks but largely isolated in term of system resources with applicat...

" Sustainable management of railway infrastructure –a case study in analyzing the fate of copper along railway tracks " , 9th World Congress on Railway Research " Meeting the challenges for future mobility " , May 22-26, SNCF, Lille, France.

The performance of railway operations depends highly on the quality of the railway timetable. In particular for dense railway networks it can be a challenge to obtain a stable robust conflict-free and energy-efficient timetable with acceptable infrastructure occupation and short travel times. This paper presents a performance-based railway timetabling framework using an integrated approach on t...

Railway capacity has been a significant issue in the railway industry. Over the last few years, numerous approaches and tools have been developed to compute railway capacity. In this paper, we compute railway capacity to design a topological model for solving periodic train scheduling, developed in collaboration with the National Network of Spanish Railways (RENFE). This topological technique t...

BACKGROUND Railway suicide has significant adverse impacts for the victims, their family and friends, witnesses to the incident, general public and train network. There is no previous review on the socio-environmental factors and railway suicide. The research question asked in this review was: 'What socio-environmental risk and protective predictors are significantly associated with railway sui...

BACKGROUND Railway suicides strongly impact psychological and socioeconomic aspects of the railway company, its employees and possible eye witnesses. We aimed to assess the incidence of railway suicides compared with the total burden of suicides in Germany and its time trend over a 10-year observation period. METHODS From 1991 to 2000, a total of 8,653 fatal railway suicides were recorded by ...