Today, the question of inequality related to transport systems is becoming an issue that governments, at different territorial scales, should confront in order find solutions and restrict consequences [...]

The paper presents results of multicriteria optimum design of an embedded rail structure (ERS). The optimality criteria are based on the requirements to railway tracks related to cost efficiency of the design, minimum noise emission and minimum wear of wheels and rails. The design variables comprise the material and geometry properties of ERS, namely elastic properties and volume of compound, s...

Correspondence to: D. Levinson (e-mail: [email protected]) Abstract. This paper examines the full costs, defined as the sum of private and social costs, of a high-speed rail system proposed for a corridor connecting Los Angeles and San Francisco in California. The full costs include infrastructure, fleet capital and operating expenses, the time users spend on the system, and the soc...

Rail corrugation is a common railway defect that involves diverse and complex factors. grinding also the most commonly used method to address corrugations. Through numerous irregularity tests one-third octave frequency spectrum analyses, this study determined characteristics development process for rail on high-speed tracks. The vibration transmission properties of train were tested using force...

The main purpose of this study is to analyze the current leakage of the power grid due to the change in speed of high-speed rail (HSR). First, using PSIM software as the fundamental basis, this study constructed an overall HSR circuit-based model system, including Scott transformer, auto-transformer, and the track equivalent circuit and grounding system. In addition, this paper sought to study ...

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