the track stiffness experienced by a train will vary along the track. sometimes the stiffness variation may be very large within a short distance. one example is when an unsupported sleeper is hanging in the rail. track stiffness is then, locally at that sleeper, very low. at insulated joints the bending stiffness of the rail has a discontinuity implying a discontinuity also of the track stiffn...

The train derailment is one of the major accidents in rail transit safety system. The reach uses collision accident of rail transit train in Tokyo and Shanghai as the case. Firstly, it present fishbone diagram to qualitatively analysis main factors in derailment. Then it set up a derailment accident tree model with the qualitative and quantitative analysis of. The results show that illegal oper...

The development of high-speed intelligent rail transit has increased the number of sensors applied on trains. These play an important role in train state control and monitoring. These sensors generally work in a severe environment, so the key problem for sensor data acquisition is to ensure data accuracy and reliability. In this paper, we follow the sequence of sensor signal flow, present senso...

Currently most modern dc rapid transit systems around the world use running rails or a negative rail as the negative return circuit for the dc traction current. These rails are intentionally kept ungrounded from ground (earth) by using insulating material between the rail and earth to minimize dc stray current. This configuration of return current rail develops varying voltage with respect to g...

Investigation of vertical vibrations of a railway turnout is important in designing track components under moving loads of trains. In this paper, the turnout is simulated by a linear finite element model with modal damping. A section of the turnout has a length of 36 sleeper spans surrounding the crossing. Rails and sleepers are modeled with uniform Rayleigh- Timoshenko beam elements. The rail...

Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board, No. 2545, Transportation Research Board, Washington, D.C., 2016, pp. 27–35. DOI: 10.3141/2545-04 The rapid expansion of production of North American petroleum crude oil from shale has led to a significant increase in rail transport of crude oil. Broken rails are frequent causes of train accidents. Ultrasonic rail defe...

Railroads play a key role in the transportation of hazardous materials in North America. Rail transport differs from highway transport in several aspects, an important one being that rail transport involves trains in which many railcars carrying hazardous materials travel together. By contrast to truck accidents, it is possible that a train accident may involve multiple hazardous materials cars...

Crew scheduling is a very well known problem which has been historically associated with airlines and mass transit companies; recently also railway applications have come on the scene. This now happens especially in Europe, where deregulation and privatization issues are forcing a reorganization of the rail industry and better productivity and eecient services are strongly required by the marke...

the main design criteria of ballasted railway tracks include rail deflections, rail bending stresses, rail wheel contact stresses, sleeper bending moments and ballast sleeper contact pressures. numerous criteria have been defined for the design of ballasted railway tracks owing to the various mechanical properties of track components and their complex interaction. therefore, railway track desig...

At present, the traditional urban public transportation system cannot meet people’s daily travel needs. Urban Rail Transit (URT) has been rapidly promoted in major cities due to its advantages such as low energy consumption, high frequency, and large traffic volume. To achieve a more excellent energy-saving operation scheduling strategy, research first combines train dynamics model consumption ...