To study the mapping relationship between girder deformation and rail for CRTS Ⅲ slab ballastless track (SBT) multi-span simply supported bridge, this derived a simplified analytical solution, corresponding ANSYS finite element model (AFEM) was established. Compared with fine (FAM) AFEM, calculation results of three models under conditions pier settlement vertical fault were compared, which ver...

The dynamic analysis of railway vehicles requires an accurate representation the vehicle, track geometry and structure, their interaction. Generally, flexible models with curved geometries represent rails straight beam elements, which results in a piecewise linear rails. Consequently, wheel-rail contact mechanics are not properly captured, forces present spurious high-frequency oscillations. Th...

DLR’s Vehicle System Dynamics group has a long tradition in the computational analysis of railway vehicles’ dynamics. The group’s main focus used to be on the development of software tools for the efficient analysis of general mechanical systems with a special emphasis on the dynamics of ground vehicles like automobiles, railway vehicles and aircraft landing gears. The respective research activ...

Railway timetabling is an important process in train service provision as it matches the transportation demand with the infrastructure capacity while customer satisfaction is also considered. It is a multi-objective optimisation problem, in which a feasible solution, rather than the optimal one, is usually taken in practice because of the time constraint. The quality of services may suffer as a...

This paper describes the system of medical hygiene and health care adopted by the Croatian section of Yugoslav Railways in the aftermath of World War Two until 1953, based on archival information. In 1945, the human resources section of the Railway Administration in Zagreb included the Department of Social Welfare with offices that managed health insurance in cases of illness and accidents, wor...

Efficiently coordinating the often large number of interdependent, timetabled train movements on a railway junction, while satisfying a number of operational requirements, is one of the most important problems faced by a railway company. The most critical variant of the problem arises on a daily basis at major railway junctions where disruptions to rail traffic make the planned schedule/routing...

The shield tunnel of the Kunming subway crosses beneath the Kun-Shi Railway. Due to the high requirements of railway track for settlement control, this article proposes the following technical measures for controlling the settlement based on the analysis of risks arising from the shield crossing railway: (1) Reinforcing the stratum of the region crossed by the shield in advance to achieve high ...

Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) are applicable to deliver train locations in real time. This train localization function should comply with railway functional safety standards; thus, the GNSS performance needs to be evaluated in consistent with railway EN 50126 standard [Reliability, Availability, Maintainability, and Safety (RAMS)]. This paper demonstrates the performance of the GNS...

This paper presents the review of past studies concerning mathematical models for rescheduling passenger railway services, as part of delay management in the occurrence of railway disruption. Many past mathematical models highlighted were aimed at minimizing the service delays experienced by passengers during service disruptions. Integer programming (IP) and mixed-integer programming (MIP) mode...

Early identification of faults in railway gearboxes is a challenging task in gearbox fault detection. There are extensive studies, such as patents and papers have been fully developed for processing vibration signals to obtain diagnostic information about gearbox. We have proposed a new technique for detecting faults in the railway gearbox by applying the time frequency parameters and genetic a...