In order to mitigate the negative effects of transportation and to achieve a competitive transport sector, infrastructure charges in the European Union should be based on short-run marginal costs. This paper shows that railway-noise charges can be estimated using already obtained knowledge of monetary and acoustical noise evaluation. Most European countries have standardized calculation methods...

High-speed railway is playing an important role in mass transportation, due to its lower energy consumption, less environmental pollution, larger capacity and higher safety features. The development of high-speed railway makes people's life more and more convenient. Meanwhile, providing high quality of service broadband communications for fast-moving users still remains unsolved, despite the fa...

This study defines a methodology to compute unitary costs for freight transportation modes. The main objective was to gather relevant costs data to support the formulation and evaluation of railway, road, pipelines and port projects. This article will concentrate on the following steps: Compilation and analysis of relevant modal cost studies, Methodological adjustments to make cost figures comp...

Railway signalling can be defined as all systems used to control railway traffic safely, essentially to prevent trains from colliding. Over the years knoledgment and technology able to satisfy this issue have been implemented. After a long period during which each European nation used its own system (with the conseguent absence of interoperabilty among them), ERTMS/ETCS is currently the most co...

The widespread high-speed rail has become an important transportation mode for tourists in China, who travel primarily in groups. With more attractive price, railway operators may be able to expand ridership, improve customer satisfaction, and ultimately increase revenue. The traditional pricing method for passenger groups, however, is relatively simple, inflexible, which may lead to profit los...

Train Set Organization (TSO) is to arrange the train set in railway freight transportation. Bilevel programming techniques were proposed to solve the Stackelberg game in which play is sequential and cooperation is not permitted. In this paper, an optimizing model for TSO is developed by the bilevel techniques. First, we analyzed the multiple level nature of management on TSO and simplified it i...

Analysing track geometry defects is critical for safe and effective railway transportation. Rectifying the appropriate number, types and combinations of geo-defects can effectively reduce the probability of derailments. In this paper, we propose an analytical framework to assist geo-defect rectification decision making. Our major contributions lie in formulating and integrating the following th...

Transportation vehicles are more and more communicating with their system environment. In the Road Transport Domain the Vehicle2Vehicle communication standard is developed and components are commercially available. Those technologies are suitable to be used for road-rail interactive uses cases (e.g. level crossings) as well as for pure railway use cases (e.g. information at platforms). To show ...

EU regulations require that public transportation systems are accessible for everyone without any restrictions for People with Reduced Mobility. This does not only refer to disabled people, but also other groups of people with reduced mobility such as elderly people, passengers with baby prams, outsize and large luggage items etc. i.e. all people with some kind of reduced mobility, in order to ...

Track Maintenance is crucial for the safe and efficient of railway transportation. After analysis of foreign management techniques for high-speed railway track maintenance, combined with the characteristic of passenger dedicated line in China, this paper has explored new ideas of the information system of passenger dedicated line track maintenance and at the same time researched on the theory a...