Rail mounted gantry crane (RMGC) scheduling is important in reducing makespan of handling operation and improving container handling efficiency. In this paper, we present an RMGC scheduling optimization model, whose objective is to determine an optimization handling sequence in order to minimize RMGC idle load time in handling tasks. An ant colony optimization is proposed to obtain near optimal...

China Railway consists of eighteen regional bureaus, geographically distributed across China, with each regional bureau having their own regional Data Center. Physically distributed and managed at a regional level, the information system of China Railway is a highly complex distributed mission critical system, integrated in networks but largely isolated in term of system resources with applicat...

" Sustainable management of railway infrastructure –a case study in analyzing the fate of copper along railway tracks " , 9th World Congress on Railway Research " Meeting the challenges for future mobility " , May 22-26, SNCF, Lille, France.

The performance of railway operations depends highly on the quality of the railway timetable. In particular for dense railway networks it can be a challenge to obtain a stable robust conflict-free and energy-efficient timetable with acceptable infrastructure occupation and short travel times. This paper presents a performance-based railway timetabling framework using an integrated approach on t...

Railway capacity has been a significant issue in the railway industry. Over the last few years, numerous approaches and tools have been developed to compute railway capacity. In this paper, we compute railway capacity to design a topological model for solving periodic train scheduling, developed in collaboration with the National Network of Spanish Railways (RENFE). This topological technique t...

BACKGROUND Railway suicide has significant adverse impacts for the victims, their family and friends, witnesses to the incident, general public and train network. There is no previous review on the socio-environmental factors and railway suicide. The research question asked in this review was: 'What socio-environmental risk and protective predictors are significantly associated with railway sui...

BACKGROUND Railway suicides strongly impact psychological and socioeconomic aspects of the railway company, its employees and possible eye witnesses. We aimed to assess the incidence of railway suicides compared with the total burden of suicides in Germany and its time trend over a 10-year observation period. METHODS From 1991 to 2000, a total of 8,653 fatal railway suicides were recorded by ...

We develop an aerodynamic loading assignment model for intermodal freight trains based on an integer-programming framework to help terminal managers make up more fuel-efficient trains. This is the first use of optimization modeling to address the aerodynamics and energy efficiency of railroad intermodal trains. Several recommendations regarding railway equipment use, operations, and policy are ...

Wireless LAN technology is complementary to 3G systems and could be used to provide high bandwidth hot spot coverage, for example in railway stations and offices, in order to provide the high bandwidth video and broadband services such as those emerging on DSL fixed access. The IST Projects BRAIN and MIND have investigated a number of key technical enablers for such a “system beyond 3G”. These ...