The land-transportation cannot meet its demands anymore. Jammed highways and cities, dangerous emissions, omnipresent traffic accidents, delays, expensive railways.
 Solutions are being sought to transfer a large part of passenger- especially freight-traffic (high-speed) rail the efforts shifting towards electromobility, car-sharing, 5G-connectivity, autonomous ride, MaaS-transport-coordin...

Formal verification and validation is a fundamental step for the certification of railways critical systems. Many railways safety standards (e.g. the CENELEC EN-50126, EN-50128 and EN-50129 standards implement the mandatory safety requirements of IEC-61508-7 standard for Functional and Safety) currently mandate the use of formal methods in the design to certify correctness. In this paper we des...

in the present paper, challenges and prospects of the european railways, along with a proposal for a new strategy policy and specific measures are presented. the declining course of european railways concerning traffic and revenues is first analyzed. conditions to introduce intra - modal competition are surveyed, among them separation of infrastructure from operation as it has been applied in a...

ballast as a part of the railway system plays an important role in the operation of the railways and also has a great impact on repair and maintenance activities. hence most of the repair and maintenance activities in traditional railway systems are due to the defections in the ballast layer and therefore most of the maintenance budget is spent on repairing these defects. these repair and maint...

STUDY OBJECTIVES To locate geographical sources of engine exhaust emissions in Great Britain and to link them with the birth addresses of children dying from cancer. To estimate the cancer initiating roles of nearby roads and railways and to measure effective ranges. DESIGN Birth and death addresses of all children born between 1955 and 1980 in Great Britain, and dying from leukaemia or other...

River transport is one of the oldest in Russian Federation. It particular importance for northern and eastern regions, where density railways highways not high enough, or they do exist at all. In these share river total cargo turnover about four percent. The use water military purposes will never be stopped. Since requirements that are more stringent imposed on transport, decommissioning vessel...

Road traffic accidents of vehicles with a rolling stock railways lead to the most serious consequences. Many level crossings are places long delays both before and after traffic. In this case in many others, intersections highways sharply limit capacity highway. Level require utmost attention organization, since they must include not only devices for movement cars, but also pedestrian sidings. ...