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Showing 1 to 20 of 26 for “"Railway system"”.
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An analysis and evaluation of the Brazilian railway system.
Thesis: M.S., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Civil Engineering, 1975
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Regional seismic risk of railway system including derailment consequences
To evaluate the seismic risk of railway networks, a derailment consequence model and a regional approach are developed The consequence model estimates the casualty and fatality rates for passengers as a function of train speed and includes two sub-models. The first sub-model, which is for the case …
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Designing highly automated safety-critical railway system and its organization
… the increased level of complexity of the whole system. These hazards include system design errors, component interactions accidents, or software-related errors due to the increased number of interfaces and coordination among internal and external stakeholders and higher dependency on automation …
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An investigation under running conditions of the Milford and Uxbridge Street Railway System
Thesis (B.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering, 1903.
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Proposed Karachi-Rasht railway system (KRR) and its impacts on the development of Afghanistan, Iran and Pakistan
… impacts of a proposed international railway system. The proposed railway extends an approximate length of 2000 miles from Karachi on the Persian Gulf, through Pakistan, Iran, and Afghanistan (the PIA Region), to Rasht on the Caspian Sea. The proposed link, named the Karachi—Rasht …
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A lean enterprise approach for developing high speed rail in Japan and Portugal
… the expansion and development of the high speed railway industry in Japan. The basic idea of the lean enterprise is increasing value-added processes, eliminating waste, and creating equitable value delivery throughout the enterprise. It also focuses on both radical change and continuous …
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Analysis of capacity pricing and allocation mechanisms in shared railway systems
… by different train operating companies (shared railway system) has been proposed as a way to improve infrastructure utilization and to increase efficiency in the railway industry. Shared use requires coordination between the infrastructure manager and multiple train operators. Such coordination …
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Revitalizing Daily Travel - Mumbai, India
… overpowered the city. Mumbai is famous for its railway system. It is the lifeline of the city. However, due to the amount of people using this system, the travel is more of a chaos. Every railway station has a main access road filled with hawkers and commercial storefronts. People in Mumbai are …
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A generic fault detection and diagnosis approach for pneumatic and electric driven railway assets
The railway assets studied in this project, are those widely distributed pieces of equipment that are critical to the dependable operation of the railway system. A failed asset is likely to cause significant delay to rail services, and may even place the system into an unsafe state. A generic fault …
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The application of the European Railway policy to the Hellenic Railways: an opportunity for effective operation?
… thesis provides analysis of the current European Railway Policy and its effects on the organization of Hellenic Railways. The focus will be on the design of a new organizational model for the operation of the whole railway system in Hellas by identifying the strengths and weaknesses of the current …
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Integrated Business and Technical System Modeling of Rail Projects with Uncertainty Analysis
… overseas expansion and operation of high-speed railways, which are highly integrated systems. This research uses the Northeast Corridor SCMAGLEV project, a Japanese high speed railway system overseas cooperation project with the United States planned and promoted as a model, to consider what …
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Transactive control of electric railway networks
… energy resources (DERs) within an electric railway system. The operation of each individual train is posed as an energy cost minimization problem that is constrained by both the dynamics of the train and the specific schedule it must meet. The solution of this problem yields an optimal power …
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Modelling traceability of KTMB train passenger
… achieve this objective, KTMB as a main national railway operator had been used as a model for study. As there are many different types of rail passenger transport services provided by KTMB, Ekspress Rakyat 1 & 2 had been selected to serve as a model. Basis of this study was that there are no such …
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A strategic investment decision model for line-haul operations on a developing country railway
When a railway is being upgraded, several alternative investment proposals may be considered. This thesis describes the development and use of a computerised model to investigate the combined effects of such investments for a less developed country railway. The work focuses on the Botswana line as …
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The institutional aspects of competitive access in the Western Canadian rail system
Rail rates and system costs are important to the profitability of Western Canadian agriculture. This importance is due to the high cost of transporting grain to export position combined with rail’s cost advantage in relation to other modes of bulk transportation. World grain markets are competitive …
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Logística brasileira: um estudo teórico do modal ferroviário
This paper presents a study of the Brazilian railways, showing its structure, prospects and limitations, featuring performance / growth and main remaining obstacles. It starts with a brief history of railways in Brazil; a characterization of other modes comprising the Brazilian transport matrix; …
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Ant Colony Optimisation for Dynamic and Dynamic Multi-objective Railway Rescheduling Problems
… to the smooth and efficient operation of the railways for both passengers and railway operators. Most current railway rescheduling research concentrates on static problems where all delays are known about in advance. However, due to the unpredictable nature of the railway system, it is …
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The effects of infrastructure investment on economic development in China, with specific focus on High-Speed Railways
… started to plan the national High Speed Railway (HSR) development to alleviate the pressure on the conventional railway system. The first well-known HSR (‘Jing-Jin” railway) was introduced in 2008 to connect Beijing and Tianjin. Ever since then, a massive and rapid development of HSR has …
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Growth, Productivity, Labour Misallocation, and the Paradox of Apartheid in 20th Century South Africa
… and economic growth that occurred alongside the systematic entrenchment of apartheid, a pervasive system of state-enforced racial discrimination. The core thesis is that apartheid, far from being a purely social or political system, was a deeply inefficient economic arrangement that imposed …
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