Both safety and efficiency should be considered in highspeed train following control. The real-time calculation of dynamic safety following distance is used by the following train to understand the quality of its own following behaviour. A new velocity difference control law can help the following train to adjust its own behaviour from a safe and efficient steady-following state to another one ...

This paper discusses the results of the analysis of the relationship between dose and solid cancer incidence among nuclear workers (males) who worked as liquidators after the Chernobyl accident. Information on this cohort of individuals is available at the regional center of Russian National Medical and Dosimetric Registry operating at the RF State Research Centre-Institute of Biophysics. Medic...