Every few weeks, I take the subway to China. More accurately, I board a metro train in downtown Washington and travel 40 minutes to a Virginia suburb that’s mostly populated by people of Chinese heritage. The area is as much a center for Chinese visitors as it is a home to immigrants. The local restaurant serves Hong Shao Rou, a dish rarely served in more Americanized Chinese restaurants. A loc...

Graphical features on map, charts, diagrams and graph drawings usually must be annotated with text labels in order to convey their meaning. In this paper we focus on a problem that arises when labeling schematized maps, e.g. for subway networks. We present algorithms for labeling points on a line with axis-parallel rectangular labels of equal height. Our aim is to maximize label size under the ...

In various industrial fields, the operators use predesigned procedures either to solve problems or for troubleshooting. In the Parisian subway, such procedures exist since 1900. However, these procedures are not always exactly suited to the case at hand, and the operators generally prefer to customize a solution than to rely on fixed procedures. For the design of an “intelligent” assistant syst...

In this paper we propose an approach to recognize behaviors of groups of people in the subway. Violent behavior or vandalism performed by a group can be detected in order to alert subway security. The proposed system is composed of 3 main layers: the detection of people in the video, the detection and tracking of groups among the detected individuals and the detection of events and scenarios of...

The design and construction of shallow-buried tunnels in densely populated urban areas involve many challenges. The ground movements induced by tunneling effects pose potential risks to infrastructure such as surface buildings, pipelines, and roads. In this paper, a case study of the Zhongjie subway station located in Shenyang, China, is examined to investigate the key construction techniques a...

We consider a combinatorial problem motivated by a special simplified timetabling problem for subway networks. Mathematically the problem is to find (pairwise) disjoint congruence classes modulo certain given integers; each such class corresponds to the arrival times of a subway line of a given frequency. For a large class of instances we characterize when such disjoint congruence classes exist...

Contraposing the subway car control equipment being scattered, the subway train controlnetwork system based on TCN RTP is designed. By constructing the virtual network environmentnetwork with simulation software NS2 and writing message data of transmission layer protocols.Through testing train control network communication efficiency, the influent factors of communication efficiency is known.Tr...

What are the real security issues for a wireless sensor network (WSN) intended to monitor the structural health of a suspension bridge, a subway tunnel or a water distribution pipe? Could an attack on the sensor network cause the structure to collapse? How easy is it for civil engineers or other domain experts to build a secure WSN using commercially available hardware and software? We answer t...

Based on our experience in the development of an interactive system for the control of subway lines, we set forward some notions about various forms of context and about context sharing. In effect, context plays a crucial role especially for incident solving on a subway line. The analysis of operators' behavior doing incident solving proved that context takes three different forms, namely exter...