In the metropolitan areas in Japan, in many stations, shopping areas are set up, and escalators and elevators are installed to make the stations be barrier-free. Further, many areas around the stations are being redeveloped. Railway business operators want to know how much effect these circumstances have on attractiveness of the station or number of passengers using the station. So, we performe...

This paper presents and discusses an approach to modelling the situation at the Abermule Train Station immediately leading up to the train disaster of 1921. The incident itself is summarised and a modelling approach introduced and presented that is based on the principles behind Empirical Modelling (EM) and yet also around the notion of tasks. A corresponding model, built with EM software tools...

This paper presents a case study commissioned by the Spanish railway carrier Ferrocariles Españoles de Vı́a Estrecha for the annual rostering of work schedules for station personnel. A mixed rostering process is used. The first part of the process is carried out manually with the aid of a spreadsheet and Visual Basic, and consists of designing an initial graphic with 4-week patterns for each sta...

In this paper we describe the hardware design and the control, and navigation system of our robotic wheelchair MAid (Mobility Aid for Elderly and Disabled People). Following the advice of disabled people and physicians we did not set out to re-invent and redevelop the set of standard skills of so-called intelligent wheelchairs , such as FollowWall, FollowCorridor, PassDoorway, which are commonl...

Little is known about the real energy potential of thermoactive underground infrastructures, such as railway stations, that can act a heating/cooling provider for built environment. This study presents results thermomechanical full-scale in situ testing and numerical analysis train station. The thermal performance related geostructural impact portion new infrastructure (UEI) installed at Lancy-...

Railways speedily transport many people and goods nationwide, so railway accidents can pose immense damage. However, the infrastructure of railways is complex that its maintenance challenging expensive. Therefore, using artificial intelligence for safety has attracted researchers. This paper examines applications safety, mainly focusing on deep learning approaches. first introduces methods wide...

Continuous welded turnouts are important for CWR track through the railway station. According to equivalent resistance and non-linear theories and the principle of force diagram, a new method of theoretical calculation for continuous welded turnouts was developed. The continuous welded turnouts designed and installed according to the new theory behaved fairly well. The data collected on sites b...

In this paper we introduce the problem of shunting passenger train units in a railway station. Shunting occurs whenever train units are temporarily not necessary to operate a given timetable. We discuss several aspects of this problem and focus on two subproblems. We propose mathematical models for these subproblems together with a solution method based on column generation. Furthermore, a new ...