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...

In recent years, the rail transport has achieved rapid development. In assuming the responsibility of promoting the transport task of the economic development, it also faces greater challenges of the rapid growth of passenger volume and safety guarantee. To carry out research on rail traffic safety assessment has essential theoretical and practical significance in protecting public property and...

This study evaluates rail transit benefits based on a comprehensive analysis of transportation system performance in major U.S. cities. It finds that cities with large, wellestablished rail systems have significantly higher per capita transit ridership, lower average per capita vehicle ownership and annual mileage, less traffic congestion, lower traffic death rates, lower consumer expenditures ...

CargoVibes: human response to vibration due to freight rail traffic David Waddington, James Woodcock, Michael G Smith, Sabine Janssen & Kerstin Persson Waye To cite this article: David Waddington, James Woodcock, Michael G Smith, Sabine Janssen & Kerstin Persson Waye (2015) CargoVibes: human response to vibration due to freight rail traffic, International Journal of Rail Transportation, 3:4, 23...

The mitigation of traffic congestion is a growing problem globally. We test whether there is a relationship between rail provision and road performance in Japan, using aggregate level data. Our motivation for examining Japan is the comparatively high level of rail provision in Japan. A regression analysis of prefectural data from 2010 finds that the length of rail has a significant effect on av...

In our Rail Human Factors approach, we define the human as the starting point for our interdisciplinary research on the design of human-machine interfaces in railway systems. One key focus of this approach is on the future workplace of the rail traffic controller. In this paper, a collaboration project between human factors scientists and trained rail traffic controllers is presented. Based on ...

STUDY OBJECTIVE Traffic noise disturbs sleep and may impair recuperation. There is limited information on single and combined effects of air, road, and rail traffic noise on sleep and recuperation. DESIGN Repeated measures. SETTING Polysomnographic laboratory study. PARTICIPANTS 72 healthy subjects, mean ± standard deviation 40 ± 13 years, range 18-71 years, 32 male. INTERVENTIONS Expos...

Associations between road traffic noise and hypertension have been repeatedly documented, whereas associations with rail or total road, rail, and air (RRA) traffic noise have rarely been investigated. Moreover, most studies of noise in the environment have only taken into account the residential neighborhood. Finally, few studies have taken into account individual/neighborhood confounders in th...

An analytical model is developed to assign regional freight across a multimodal highway and railway network using geographic information systems. As part of the regional planning process, the model is an iterative procedure that assigns multimodal freight traffic to the network to achieve overall network optimum. The procedure integrates optimization programming with traffic assignment, conside...

Wear and fatigue in rails are major contributors of rail degradation depending on operational conditions, track, characteristics of bogie type, Million Gross Tonnes (MGT), curvature, traffic type and environmental conditions. Estimation of parameter for failure models is necessary for accurate prediction of expected number of rail defects over a period of time based on MGT of traffic and operat...