Anti-runaway prevention of rolling stocks at a railway station is essential in railway safety management. The traditional track skates for anti-runaway prevention of rolling stocks have some disadvantages since they are operated and monitored completely manually. This paper describes an anti-runaway prevention system (ARPS) based on intelligent track skates equipped with sensors and real-time m...

Since 2012, European high speed railway networks are meant to have gone to market. Hence, several high speed trains, such as ICE, TGV, ETR 500, Sapsan..., are likely to run on the same tracks, whereas they have been originally designed for specific and different railway networks. Due to different mechanical properties and structures, the dynamic behaviors, the agressiveness of the vehicle on th...

Progress of construction technology Japan has a relatively small proportion of lowland, consisting mainly of alluvial coastal plains. Railway construction started in the early Meiji Era (1868–1912) and since the construction technology was still immature, the first lines were built in level coastal areas. The rails were laid mostly on earth structures such as embankments and cuttings. Many rail...

Railway scheduling is a complex task of rail operators that involves the generation of a conflict-free train timetable. This paper presents a discrete-event simulation-based optimization approach for solving the train timetabling problem to minimize total weighted unplanned stop time in a hybrid single and double track railway networks. The designed simulation model is used as a platform for ge...

Nowadays, metropolitan railway systems are in great demand, so they offer highfrequency services for the most part of the day. Therefore there are only a few hours during night available to carry out maintenance tasks. This research develops a system that records the vertical accelerations undergone by the bogies of in-service railway vehicles. As accelerations are measured during regular servi...

Indian railway is one of the largest networks in country. Its motto “the life line country”, and main transport completed by railways Railroad cheapest safest means transport, but there are also certain accidents on railroad. 60% caused road failures or formation cracks road. Today’s rail systems involve manual track inspection, which cumbersome not entirely effective. However, detection correc...