Indian Railways, since its inception have been under government ownership. But with increasing demand and cost pressures, entry of private sector has become inevitable. railways also embraced the idea use public partnership for better service efficient resource utilization. This paper studies effectiveness using (PPP) model in railways. The public-private investment, though a phenomenal success...

European railways have been reorganized to allow for market competition. Thus, train services vertically separated from infrastructure management which allows several operators compete. Different ways emerged vertical separation, capacity allocation and track access charges. This paper reviews important deregulation aspects a number of countries. The study compares how competition has introduce...

For AC railway power supply systems with a different frequency than the public grid, high-voltage AC (HVAC) transmission lines are common, connected to the catenary by transformers. This paper suggests an alternative design based on an HVDC (High Voltage DC) feeder, which is connected to the catenary by converters. Such an HVDC line would also be appropriate for DC-fed railways and AC-fed railw...

Why do nations fail? Wolcott and Clark [2009] offer a perspective on economic growth through a comparison of the cotton textile industries in India and Japan in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Textile mills in the two nations had comparable outputs as of 1890. In the ensuing fifty years, output per worker hour quintupled in Japan but did not increase much in India. These tren...

Editorial Regulatory reforms in the South Asian region are moving ahead with a renewed vigor and the pace of activity is picking up in the region. The Bangladesh government has legalized Internet telephony, that is, VoIP (voice over Internet protocol) and the Bangladesh Telecommunications Regulatory Commission will award licenses and oversee operations of the VoIP operators. In Pakistan, privat...

Railway yard is the basic composition unit of railways, therefore, the efficiency and quality of railway yard design have a crucial effect on the construction and operation of railways. Plane design is the basis and core of railway yard design, consequently, it is significant to research plane design of railway yard. In this study, through analysis and summary of the research status as well as ...

Abstract— Wireless Sensor Network is architecture with a variety of potential application. Wireless sensor network have emerged as an important application of the ad-hoc networks paradigm, such as for monitoring physical environment. These sensor networks have limitations of system resources like battery power, communication range and processing capability. There is a crucial link between safet...

Modern metropolitan areas involve large concentrations of economic activity and the transport of millions of people each day between their residence and workplace. However, relatively little is known about the role of these commuting ows in promoting agglomeration forces. We use the revolution in transport technology from the invention of steam railways, newly-constructed spatially-disaggregate...

Railways are an environmentally friendly means of transport that offer many advantages for sustainable development. However, noise and vibration remain a major reason for objections to new lines or network expansions. Railways will never be silent but, it is nevertheless important to reduce their noise and vibration as much as possible while not adding unnecessary cost or complication to their ...

MATRAS is a newly proposed traffic monitoring and controlling model based on the Multi-Agent System. Indian Railways has a huge, robust and extremely complex network which is the largest in the World. But we are still practicing very traditional approaches in the Indian Railways, which requires frequent human interventions. As a result, any sort of mistake or deliberation could lead us to a fat...