Computers in Railways X: Computer System Design & Operation in the Railway & Other Transit Systems Book

	Choices between stairs, escalators and ramps in stations	3
	How is the business case used by stakeholders for making project decisions with PFI/PPP projects?	13
	A bilevel model for optimizing station locations along a rail transit line	23
	Design and implementation of virtual environments for planning and building sustainable railway transit systems	33
	The network effects of railway investments	45
	Modelling and simulation of the traffic management in a migration phase : example of "Ligne 1" of the Parisian subway	55
	Computer based ex-ante evaluation of the planned railway line between Copenhagen and Ringsted by use of a Decision Support System named COSIMA-DSS	65
	Assessing rail transport network performance and reliability	75
	A study on a mathematical model of the track maintenance scheduling problem	85
	Statistical method for the evaluation of railway system modifications	97
	Prioritized Rail Corridor Asset Management	105
	An assessment of hazard probability due to Pentium processor errata in automatic train control applications	115
	Role of supervision systems in railway safety	129
	Automatic train controller safety simulation	139
	Common approach for supervising the railway safety performance	147
	Potential dangerous object detection on railway ballast using digital image processing	157
	Thermal characteristics of novel brake friction materials for light rail transit applications	167
	A fast method for estimating railway passenger flow	179
	Route-choice support system for passengers in the face of unexpected disturbance of train operations	189
	A new delay forecasting system for the Passenger Information Control system (PIC) of the Tokaido-Sanyo Shinkansen	199
	Reconstruction of train trajectories from track occupation data to determine the effects of a Driver Information System	207
	A decision support system for track maintenance	217
	The new Shinkansen rescheduling system for drivers and crew	227
	A decision support system for railway timetabling (MOM) : the Spanish case	235
	Measurement of train driver's brain activity by functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS)	245
	Methodology for the LCC-Analysis and the optimal migration of the railway operations control on the example of ETCS	255
	Application of location detection system using active type RFID tags to railways	265
	A survey on SNCF decision support system tools to supervise and to pilot train traffic in operation	275
	Distributed constraint satisfaction problems to model railway scheduling problems	289
	Blocking time reduction for level crossings using the genetic algorithm	299
	Modeling a distributed railway interlocking system with object-oriented Petri nets	309
	Using UML diagrams for system safety and security environment analysis	319
	System-independent and quality tested availability of railway data across country and system borders by the model driven approach	329
	Formalisation and simulation of operating rules using coloured Petri nets	341
	From UML to B - a level crossing case study	351
	The feasibility case for converting existing heavy metro systems to driverless operation	363
	Converting existing service to fully automatic operation	373
	Re-signaling the Paris Line 1 : from driver based to driverless operation	381
	Application of communication based Moving Block systems on existing metro lines	391
	Driverless CBTC - specific requirements for CBTC systems to overcome operation challenges	401
	CBTC (Communication Based Train Control) : system and development	413
	An algorithm for braking curve calculations in ERTMS train protection systems	421
	ICONIS : the window for URBALIS controlled automatic METRO	431
	Automatic train operation system for the high speed Shinkansen train	441
	Design of experiment for the validation of ATP/ATC odometry algorithms	449
	Location in railway traffic : generation of a digital map for secure applications	459
	Train position detecting system using radio millimeter-waves	469
	Optimal train control at a junction in the main line rail network using a new object-oriented signalling system model	479
	Optimising train priorities to support the regulation of train services with the assistance of active and deductive databases	489
	Simulation of traffic management with FRISO	501
	Influences of station length and inter-station distance on delays and delay propagation on single-track lines with regional rail traffic	511
	Simulation of disturbances and modelling of expected train passenger delays	521
	Running time re-optimization during real-time timetable perturbations	531
	ALFa - a software tool for optimal scheduling of demand oriented train services	541
	An algorithm for train rescheduling using rescheduling pattern description language R	551
	State-of-the-art of railway operations research	565
	Timetable management and operational simulation : methodology and perspectives	579
	The contribution of state resources in a constraint-based scheduling model for conflict solving at railway junctions	591
	A new idea for train scheduling using ant colony optimization	601
	Joint design standard for running times, dwell times and headway times	611
	RTCSIM : an innovative, extendable computation engine for timetable validation	621
	Evaluating stochastic train process time distribution models on the basis of empirical detection data	631
	Practical use of the UIC 406 capacity leaflet by including timetable tools in the investigations	643
	A method to estimate passenger flow with stored data at ticket gates	653
	Analysis and optimisation of railway nodes using simulation techniques	663
	Model checker for railway signalling communication protocol	675
	A new ground-to-train communication system using free-space optics technology	683
	Communications security concerns in communications based train control	693
	Ethernet-based network with high reliability for railway signaling systems	703
	Information system for railway energy management	713
	Impact of train model variables on simulated energy usage and journey time	723
	Investigation into the computational techniques of power system modelling for a DC railway	735
	Catenary and autotransformer coupled optimization for 2x25kV systems planning	747
	A study of capacity calculation of regenerative inverter for 1500V DC traction system	757
	Train operation minimizing energy consumption in DC electric railway with on-board energy storage device	767
	Calculations and measurements of harmonic current distributions in the catenary of railways with single-phase A.C.	777
	A numerical algorithm for run-curve optimization of trains considering a DC feeding circuit	787
	Railway modelling for power quality analysis	797
	A mixed AC/DC model for railway power systems	805
	A user interface for the representation of the dynamic results on the pantograph-catenary interactions	817
	Dynamic identification of a 1 : 5 scaled railway bogie on roller rig	829
	On enhanced tilt strategies for tilting trains	839
	Railway car dynamic response to track transition curve and single standard turnout	849
	Optimization of special freight wagons with small wheel diameter	859
	Design and simulation of railway vehicles braking operation using a scaled roller-rig	869
	Study on vertical dynamic vehicle-track interactions using the TRADYS test facility and computer simulation	885
	The study of design on the urban track transportation vibration prevention : floating slab track in the bored tunnel at Taipei	895
	Effect of the distribution of the arrivals and of the intermodal unit sizes on the transit time through freight terminals	905
	COMPAT : a decision support tool for determining the necessity of rail infrastructure	915
	A cost effective solution to manage rail cargo fleets : the final assessment of the F-MAN project	923
	Methodology for the monitoring, control and warning of defects for preventive maintenance of rails	935
	Onboard measurement method for signaling equipment on Probe Trains	945
	Fault detection of railway track by multi-resolution analysis	955
	Research on the onboard auto-test system for track circuit compensating capacitors	965
	Monitoring wheel defects on a metro line : system description, analysis and results	973