OBJECTIVE To investigate the risk of cancer associated with exposure to air pollution among bus drivers and tramway employees. METHODS A retrospective cohort study of 18,174 bus drivers or tramway employees in Copenhagen in the period 1900-94. Data on employment were obtained from company files. Information on cancer was obtained from the Danish Cancer Registry. RESULTS Findings showed that...

For decades, urban noise and vibration studies were mostly concerned with road traffic and trains. Tramway noise was rarely studied. Since the introduction of new types of tramways in the city of Graz strong complaints were brought up by local residents in certain areas. Typically, the annoyance by tramways results from a complex combination of sounds and vibration exposure depending on ground ...

We discuss a new diagnosis system combining wavelet analysis techniques and probabilistic classifiers for detecting tramway rollers defects. A continuous wavelet transform is applied on the vibration signals measured by specific accelerometers located on the rail. A temporal segmentation of the signals is carried out in order to identify the contribution of each pair of rollers to the overall v...

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In this paper, we present the 2006 survey study origin destination and price that we carried out during 2006 fall in the area in the Moroccan region of Rabat-Salé-Zemmour-Zaer. The survey concerns the people’s characteristics, their displacements behavior and the price that they will be able to pay for a tramway ticket. The main objective is to study a set of relative features to the households...

A procedure for the analysis of the performance of a complex network system is proposed, based on recently introduced measures of topological interconnection and reliability efficiency. An example of application of the procedure is provided with respect to a real tramway transport system, which turns out to have small world characteristics when considered as an open system inclusive of walkway ...

The purpose of this paper is threefold: (1) to show a methodology for introducing formality step-by-step, starting from a “light-weight” ontology, (2) to apply it to the generic Route Graph model, instantiated here to Tramway Networks, and (3) to demonstrate that separation of concerns into layers of abstraction and application of generic formal notions such as graph abstraction lead to a usefu...