Railway suicide is a significant public health problem. In addition to the loss of lives, these suicides occur in public space, causing traumatization among train drivers and passengers, and significant public transport delays. Prevention efforts depend upon accurate knowledge of clustering phenomena across the railway network, and spatial risk factors. Factors such as proximity to psychiatric ...

Life cycle assessment framework for railway bridges: literature survey and critical issues Guangli Du & Raid Karoumi To cite this article: Guangli Du & Raid Karoumi (2014) Life cycle assessment framework for railway bridges: literature survey and critical issues, Structure and Infrastructure Engineering, 10:3, 277-294, DOI: 10.1080/15732479.2012.749289 To link to this article: http://dx.doi.org...

Aiming at a large number construction of high-speed railway and elevated railway passenger station, make a dynamics simulation study on the law of platform vibration characteristics on the situation of high-speed train passing through. First, make a brief introduction on the theory of the interaction of the vehicle-elevated station structure in vertical and transverse directions. Secondly, on t...

Simulation methods are widely used in railway planning and operation. However, at the moment there are no applicable solutions in the process simulation for a smooth transition among different infrastructure levels on the basis of a unified structure with consistent algorithm. In this paper, a multi-scale simulation model is designed with consideration of the level of detail of the investigated...

Construction projects become complicated and fragmented so that many specialty contractors are involved. In such changed environments, a general contractor’s overhead costs are increasing comparable to direct costs. In addition to an increase of volume, activities consisting of overhead costs play an important role in coordinating different participants who include different specialty contracto...

Times of downturn in economy, tough competition, high costs, and large amounts of capital required for replacements have created growing need for cost cutting measures and for seeking better return on investment. This has also placed an increasing emphasis on maintenance practices to extend the service life of existing railroad bridges. This paper outlines the various factors which playa role i...

Progress of construction technology Japan has a relatively small proportion of lowland, consisting mainly of alluvial coastal plains. Railway construction started in the early Meiji Era (1868–1912) and since the construction technology was still immature, the first lines were built in level coastal areas. The rails were laid mostly on earth structures such as embankments and cuttings. Many rail...

This paper teases the wooden architectures at Yimianpo in the period of Chinese Eastern Railway, analyzes the construction of the wooden architectures, classifies them according to the wooden structure system, and uses relevant protection and repair technologies for research according to their characteristics, in order to find reasonable protection and repair technologies for the wooden archite...

In the paper conceptual and physical realisation of a railway demonstrator model is presented. The main purpose of its design is a validation of different control algorithms specified by different project groups in real operating conditions. Conceptual tasks of the realisation are the specification of the target operational behaviour and the derivation of functional structure of the railway mod...