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    Investigating railway track asset management using a Markov analysis

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    Prescott, Darren / Andrews, John | SAGE Publications | 2015
    A railway track asset management strategy must ensure that the condition of the track stays at an acceptable level, ensuring passenger ...

    A review of key planning and scheduling in the rail industry in Europe and UK

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    Turner, Christopher / Tiwari, Ashutosh / Starr, Andrew et al. | SAGE Publications | 2016
    techniques over the last 25 years. Increasingly, the use of computational intelligence in such tasks is featuring more heavily in research ...

    Estimating the relative cost of track damage mechanisms: combining economic and engineering approaches

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    Smith, Andrew / Iwnicki, Simon / Kaushal, Aniruddha et al. | SAGE Publications | 2017
    This paper proposes a new, two-stage methodology to estimate the relative marginal cost of different types of vehicles running on the rail ...

    Rethinking rail track switches for fault tolerance and enhanced performance

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    Bemment, Samuel D / Ebinger, Emma / Goodall, Roger M et al. | SAGE Publications | 2017
    laboratory. Details of the novel arrangement and concept are provided herein. This concept is considered as an advance on the state of the art. This ...

    Evaluation of air quality at the Birmingham New Street Railway Station

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    Hickman, AL / Baker, CJ / Cai, X et al. | SAGE Publications | 2018
    made at the Birmingham New Street station, a major rail interchange in the Midlands of England, with a mix of diesel and electric train ...
    Keywords: oxides of nitrogen

    Improving the performance of finite element simulations on the wheel–rail interaction by using a coupling strategy

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    Ma, Yuewei / Markine, Valeri L / Mashal, Abdul Ahad et al. | SAGE Publications | 2018
    Over the past few years, a number of implicit/explicit finite element models have been introduced for the purpose of tackling the problems ...

    Improving the reliability and availability of railway track switching by analysing historical failure data and introducing functionally redundant subsystems

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    Bemment, Samuel D / Goodall, Roger M / Dixon, Roger et al. | SAGE Publications | 2018
    , the aeronautical and nuclear industries. This paper models the adoption of a functional redundancy approach to the functional subsystems of ...

    Experimental analysis of railway track settlement in transition zones

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    Wang, Haoyu / Markine, Valeri / Liu, Xiangming | SAGE Publications | 2018
    stiffness and settlement in the open track and the engineering structure resulting in the dynamic amplification of the wheel forces, track ...

    Behaviour of under sleeper pads at switches and crossings – Field measurements

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    Le Pen, Louis / Watson, G / Hudson, A et al. | SAGE Publications | 2018
    Major growth in rail traffic in many parts of the world in recent years has brought railway networks close to capacity and restricted the ...

    Automated processing of railway track deflection signals obtained from velocity and acceleration measurements

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    Milne, David / Pen, Louis L / Thompson, David et al. | SAGE Publications | 2018
    Measurements of low-frequency vibration are increasingly being used to assess the condition and performance of railway tracks ...

    Effect of wheel–rail interface parameters on contact stability in explicit finite element analysis

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    Ma, Yuewei / Markine, Valeri L / Mashal, Abdul Ahad et al. | SAGE Publications | 2018
    It is widely recognized that the accuracy of explicit finite element simulations is sensitive to the choice of interface parameters (i.e ...

    A decentralized approach to formation flight routing of long-haul commercial flights

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    Verhagen, Collin MA / Visser, Hendrikus G / Santos, Bruno F | SAGE Publications | 2019
    This paper describes the development of an optimization-based cooperative planning system for the efficient routing and scheduling of ...

    Reconstruction of an informative railway wheel defect signal from wheel–rail contact signals measured by multiple wayside sensors

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    Alemi, Alireza / Corman, Francesco / Pang, Yusong et al. | SAGE Publications | 2019
    wheels. Therefore, wheel impact load detectors exploit multiple sensors to collect samples from different portions of the wheels. The discrete ...

    Evaluation of the influential parameters contributing to the reconstruction of railway wheel defect signals

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    Alemi, Alireza / Corman, Francesco / Pang, Yusong et al. | SAGE Publications | 2020
    A wheel impact load detector is used to assess the condition of a railway wheel by measuring the dynamic forces generated by defects. This ...

    Lightweighting of railway axles for the reduction of unsprung mass and track access charges

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    Mistry, PJ / Johnson, MS | SAGE Publications | 2020
    The potential for lightweighting of railway axles was investigated to primarily reduce the unsprung mass of rail vehicles. The reduction of ...

    Techno-economic analysis of freight railway electrification by overhead line, hydrogen and batteries: Case studies in Norway and USA

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    Zenith, Federico / Isaac, Raphael / Hoffrichter, Andreas et al. | SAGE Publications | 2020
    simulations, including the altitude profiles of the lines, air and rolling resistances, and locomotive tractive-effort curves. The composition of the ...

    Reliability-based life cycle costing analysis for embedded rails in level crossings

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    Shang, Yue / van den Boomen, Martine / de Man, Amy et al. | SAGE Publications | 2020
    asset management. In addition, it allows investigation of the impact of maintenance decisions on designing the service life of assets. The ...

    A review of the technological developments for interlocking at level crossing

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    Fayyaz, Muhammad Asad Bilal / Alexoulis-Chrysovergis, Aris C / Southgate, Matthew J et al. | SAGE Publications | 2021
    A Level Crossing remains as one of the highest risk assets within the railway system often depending on the unpredictable behaviour of road ...

    An integrated numerical framework to investigate the running safety of overlong freight trains

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    Krishna, Visakh V / Jobstfinke, Daniel / Melzi, Stefano et al. | SAGE Publications | 2021
    Long freight trains up to 1500 m in length are currently not in regular operation in Europe. One of the important reasons for the same is ...

    Assessing the effectiveness of traction gels using full-scale and field testing

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    White, Ben / Hyland-Knight, Jack / Lewis, Roger | SAGE Publications | 2021
    network as a result. This work developed a range of full-scale laboratory and field tests that can be used to assess traction gel performance. The ...