Purpose In comparison to North America, railway companies in Europe are confronted with strong economic issues in running their wagonload traffic. The purpose of this paper is an analysis how infrastructural and institutional differences affect planning issues and economic efficiency. Method A particular decision problem from railway freight traffic, the Railroad Blocking Problem (RBP), is cons...

In recent decades, the role of heritage railways has gradually shifted from transportation, economy, and trade to tourism, culture, ecology. The railway landscape is experiencing multiple changes along with a value ambiguity problem. There need comprehensively recognize this in order promote transformations monitor changes. Inspired by Landscape Character Assessment (LCA), paper adopts two-scal...

Broken rails can cause train delays, trains cancelations and, unfortunately, they are common causes of accidents. This aff ects planning of a resources, budget and organization of railway track maintenance. Planning of railway track maintenance cannot be done without an estimation of number of rails that will be replaced due to the broken rail incidents. There are many factors that infl uence b...

The transportation planning of Indian Railways has become increasingly complex due to the growing population and increasing demand for mobility. To develop an efficient effective last-mile system, it is important identify extent influence zone railway stations. This can guide policy decisions infrastructure development. research paper focuses on mapping zones 40 stations across Northern Railway...

Satellite-based localization technologies are strategic opportunities in railway applications because they offer new possibilities of service and have advantages that current technologies relying mainly on infrastructures deployed along tracks cannot equal. GNSS (Global Navigation Satellite Systems) can, in particular, offer localization services in ERTMS (European Rail Traffic Management Syste...

Reliability is one of the key factors in transportation, both for passengers and for cargo. This paper examines reliability in public railway systems. Reliability of railway services is a complex matter, since there are many causes for disruptions and at least as many causes for delays to spread around in space and time. One way to increase the reliability is to reduce the propagation of delays...

RFID technology has been widely utilized for the tracking and identification of numerous stationary and moving objects. One of the most challenging RFID applications has to do with the improvement in reliability, scheduling and efficiency of large‐scale transportation infrastructure. As an example, Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technology in Ultra High Friency (UHF) frequen...

High-speed railway is a very important part of transportation industry in China, and travel choice has key effect on the development of high-speed railway. Therefore,research on travel behavior of passengers and prediction their travel choice, will offer valuable suggestion for high-speed railway running. In this paper, support vector machine (SVM) is the main method being used to predict. Supp...