Computers in Railways: v. 10

Section 1: Planning Choices between stairs, escalators and ramps in stations; How is the business case used by stakeholders for making project decisions with PFI/PPP projects?; A bilevel model for optimizing station locations along a rail transit line; Design and implementation of virtual environments for planning and building sustainable railway transit systems; The network effects of railway investments; Modelling and simulation of the traffic management in a migration phase: example of "Ligne 1" of the Parisian subway; Computer based ex-ante evaluation of the planned railway line between Copenhagen and Ringsted by use of a Decision Support System named COSIMA-DSS; Assessing rail transport network performance and reliability; A study on a mathematical model of the track maintenance scheduling problem; Statistical method for the evaluation of railway system modifications; Prioritized Rail Corridor Asset Management Section 2: Safety An assessment of hazard probability due to Pentium processor errata in automatic train control applications; Role of supervision systems in railway safety; Automatic train controller safety simulation; Common approach for supervising the railway safety performance; Potential dangerous object detection on railway ballast using digital image processing; Thermal characteristics of novel brake friction materials for light rail transit applications Section 3: Passenger interface systems A fast method for estimating railway passenger flow; Route-choice support system for passengers in the face of unexpected disturbance of train operations; A new delay forecasting system for the Passenger Information Control system (PIC) of the Tokaido-Sanyo Shinkansen Section 4: Decision support systems Reconstruction of train trajectories from track occupation data to determine the effects of a Driver Information System; A decision support system for track maintenance; The new Shinkansen rescheduling system for drivers and crew; A Decision Support System for railway timetabling (MOM): the Spanish case; Measurement of train driver's brain activity by functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS); Methodology for the LCC-Analysis and the optimal migration of the railway operations control on the example of ETCS; Application of location detection system using active type RFID tags to railways; A survey on SNCF decision support system tools to supervise and to pilot train traffic in operation Section 5: Computer techniques Distributed constraint satisfaction problems to model railway scheduling problems; Blocking time reduction for level crossings using the genetic algorithm; Modeling a distributed railway interlocking system with object-oriented Petri nets; Using UML diagrams for system safety and security environment analysis; System-independent and quality tested availability of railway data across country and system borders by the model driven approach; Formalisation and simulation of operating rules using coloured Petri nets; From UML to B - a level crossing case study Section 6: Converting metros to driverless operation (special section organised by A. F. Rumsey) The feasibility case for converting existing heavy metro systems to driverless operation; Converting existing service to fully automatic operation; Re-signaling the Paris Line 1: from driver based to driverless operation; Application of communication based Moving Block systems on existing metro lines; Driverless CBTC - specific requirements for CBTC systems to overcome operation challenges Section 7: Advanced train control CBTC (Communication Based Train Control): system and development; An algorithm for braking curve calculations in ERTMS train protection systems; ICONIS: the window for URBALIS controlled automatic METRO; Automatic train operation system for the high speed Shinkansen train Section 8: Train location Design of experiment for the validation of ATP/ATC odometry algorithms; Location in railway traffic: generation of a digital map for secure applications; Train position detecting system using radio millimeter-waves Section 9: Dynamic train regulation Optimal train control at a junction in the main line rail network using a new object-oriented signalling system model; Optimising train priorities to support the regulation of train services with the assistance of active and deductive databases; Simulation of traffic management with FRISO; Influences of station length and inter-station distance on delays and delay propagation on single-track lines with regional rail traffic; Simulation of disturbances and modelling of expected train passenger delays; Running time re-optimization during real-time timetable perturbations; ALFa - a software tool for optimal scheduling of demand oriented train services; An algorithm for train rescheduling using rescheduling pattern description language R Section 10: Timetable planning State-of-the-art of railway operations research; Timetable management and operational simulation: methodology and perspectives; The contribution of state resources in a constraint-based scheduling model for conflict solving at railway junctions; A new idea for train scheduling using ant colony optimization; Joint design standard for running times, dwell times and headway times; RTCSIM: an innovative, extendable computation engine for timetable validation; Evaluating stochastic train process time distribution models on the basis of empirical detection data Section 11: Operations quality Practical use of the UIC 406 capacity leaflet by including timetable tools in the investigations; A method to estimate passenger flow with stored data at ticket gates; Analysis and optimisation of railway nodes using simulation techniques Section 12: Communications Model checker for railway signalling communication protocol; A new ground-to-train communication system using free-space optics technology; Communications security concerns in communications based train control; Ethernet-based network with high reliability for railway signaling systems Section 13: Energy management Information system for railway energy management; Impact of train model variables on simulated energy usage and journey time Section 14: Power supply Investigation into the computational techniques of power system modelling for a DC railway; Catenary and autotransformer coupled optimization for 2x25kV systems planning; A study of capacity calculation of regenerative inverter for 1500V DC traction system; Train operation minimizing energy consumption in DC electric railway with on-board energy storage device; Calculations and measurements of harmonic current distributions in the catenary of railways with single-phase A.C.; A numerical algorithm for run-curve optimization of trains considering a DC feeding circuit; Railway modelling for power quality analysis; A mixed AC/DC model for railway power systems; A user interface for the representation of the dynamic results on the pantograph-catenary interactions Section 15: Dynamics and wheel/rail interface Dynamic identification of a 1:5 scaled railway bogie on roller rig; On enhanced tilt strategies for tilting trains; Railway car dynamic response to track transition curve and single standard turnout; Optimization of special freight wagons with small wheel diameter; Design and simulation of railway vehicles braking operation using a scaled roller-rig; Study on vertical dynamic vehicle-track interactions using the TRADYS test facility and computer simulation; The study of design on the urban track transportation vibration prevention: floating slab track in the bored tunnel at Taipei Section 16: Freight Effect of the distribution of the arrivals and of the intermodal unit sizes on the transit time through freight terminals; COMPAT: a decision support tool for determining the necessity of rail infrastructure; A cost effective solution to manage rail cargo fleets: the final assessment of the F-MAN project Section 17: Condition monitoring Methodology for the monitoring, control and warning of defects for preventive maintenance of rails; Onboard measurement method for signaling equipment on Probe Trains; Fault detection of railway track by multi-resolution analysis; Research on the onboard auto-test system for track circuit compensating capacitors; Monitoring wheel defects on a metro line: system description, analysis and results