Complex railway networks typically consist of widely diffused OD-pairs by which it is impossible to provide direct trips only. Therefore, passengers often have to change trains at transfer stations. Guaranteeing scheduled connections is complicated by delays during operation. To improve and maintain the quality of transfers requires optimal scheduling and control of connections at transfer stat...

In this scientific article, control sensors and devices have been improved based on the method of counting arrows rolling stock railway transport. The microprocessor-controlled unit system simplified to manage traffic between two stations, a self-monitoring, reliable risky scheme has developed. Wiring diagrams existing transport relays updated for uninterruptible power supplies, microprocessor ...

A multi-agent architecture possesses versatility when solving complex problems in various research fields. In open systems, in which agents are unknown to each other a priori, their trust relationship is an essential subject. Hence, we present a reputation model based on dossier, which grants authenticity and reliability of exchanged information to its participants. This model has been applied ...

OBJECTIVES The current study was performed to (1) understand the distribution of airborne fungi culturable on dichloran-glycerol agar (DG18) media over a one-year monitoring period, (2) identify the types of airborne fungi collected, and (3) compare and contrast under- and above-ground spaces, in two railway stations in Tokyo, Japan. METHODS Measurements of airborne fungi were taken at statio...

This paper aims to develop a multi-objective model for scheduling cargo trains faced by the costs of tardiness and earliness, time limitations, queue priority and limited station lines. Based upon the Islamic Republic of Iran Railway Corporation (IRIRC) regulations, passenger trains enjoy priority over other trains for departure. Therefore, the timetable of cargo trains must be determined based...

With the development of high-speed railway and public growing demand on data traffic, people pay much more attention to provide high data rate and high reliable services under high mobility circumstance. Due to the higher data rate and lower system latency, long-term evolution (LTE) has been chosen as the next generation’s evolution of railway mobile communication system by the International Un...

This paper deals with the real-time problem of scheduling and routing trains in a railway network. In the related literature, this problem is usually solved starting from a subset of routing alternatives and computing the near-optimal solution of the simplified routing problem. We study how to select the best subset of routing alternatives for each train among all possible alternatives. The rea...