With the high speed railway speed increasing and driving distance shortening in China, the time conformity of subsystems of railway is becoming more significant to railway traffic safety. The railway time synchronization network (RTSN), the medium carrying and broadcasting time information, is responsible to convey the information of internal clock of railway and its function poses direct influ...

A major problem addressed in railway network planning relates to distinguishing the role of the railway line in the network, and making a reasonable classification of the lines based on their role. Accessibility has been widely used to measure the role of transportation infrastructure in various studies, but few quantitative models for the classification of the role have been presented yet. In ...

Making great strides in social economy, demands for the material is growing, at the same time,it also stimulates the development of logistics.The railway-water combined transportation of our country is being into a golden opportunity, With the support of national policy and the improvement of railway transportation capacity,it's preparing for the development conditions of the railway-water comb...

The economy of China and the travel needs of its citizens depend significantly on the continuous and reliable services provided by its railway system. However, this system is subject to frequent natural hazards, such as floods, earthquakes, and debris flow. A mechanism to assess the railway system vulnerability under these hazards and the design of effective vulnerability mitigation strategies ...

Because of using the nonlinear high-power, single-phase, multi-step full wave or bridge rectifier electric locomotive in electrified railway, the electrified railway traction power supply system has serious power quality problems, which affect safe operation of the electrified railway and impact the local power grid adversely. Aiming at the electrified railway power quality problems, a homogeni...

BACKGROUND While coverage of a celebrity suicide in the mass media may trigger copycat suicides, evidence for the effect of media reports of non-prominent suicides is moderate. Diversification of current media may raise further doubts as to whether their influence on suicidal acts is still present. We examined whether widespread media coverage of a railway accident, in which several people were...

In this article, multiple-product PVRP with pickup and delivery that is used widely in goods distribution or other service companies, especially by railways, was introduced. A mathematical formulation was provided for this problem. Each product had a set of vehicles which could carry the product and pickup and delivery could simultaneously occur. To solve the problem, two meta-heuristic methods...

Context of the study and associated problem: Due to its railroad activities, the SNCF (French National Railway Company) has to face with the energy challenge. If its first motivations are based on short term an economic concern, the SNCF also wants to anticipate the decrease of oil reserves and wishes to be an actor of the environment protection. To achieve this goal, the SNCF has engaged resea...

There are several ways to describe and structure safety rules for railways, and a few examples are given in the report. A tentative holistic framework for describing safety features in relation to safety rules is presented. The approach has been applied on rules needed to regulate the communication between different railway organisations and other parties.