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Rails Won't Save America [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
Rising gas prices and concerns about greenhouse gases have stimulated calls to build more rail transit lines in urban areas, increase subsidies to Amtrak, and construct a large-scale intercity high-speed rail system. These megaprojects will cost hundreds
Randal O'Toole
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Risk assessment for rail freight transport operations

open access: yes, 2021
The problem of risk assessment in railway transport is presented next to risk analysis and risk evaluation as one of the stages of risk management in the whole railway system.
Lucyna Szaciłło   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Comparison of motor coach exhaust emissions in real operating conditions for different testing procedures [PDF]

open access: yesMATEC Web of Conferences, 2019
The article discusses the results of applying real driving emissions (RDE) testing methods in measuring the exhaust emissions of a passenger rail vehicle. Portable Emissions Measuring Systems (PEMS) were used to measure the exhaust emissions from a motor
Gallas Dawid   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

A Review on Technologies for Localisation and Navigation in Autonomous Railway Maintenance Systems

open access: yesSensors, 2022
Smart maintenance is essential to achieving a safe and reliable railway, but traditional maintenance deployment is costly and heavily human-involved. Ineffective job execution or failure in preventive maintenance can lead to railway service disruption ...
Masoumeh Rahimi   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Hierarchical structures and plane sections of generalized Pascal’s pyramid [PDF]

open access: yesEPJ Web of Conferences
We research mathematical combinatorial objects of pyramidal structure. Hierarchical structures are constructed based on the sums of the generalized Pascal’s pyramid plane sections elements.
Strikhar Marina, Kuzmin Oleg
doaj   +1 more source

DEVELOPMENT THE METHOD OF THERMOMECHANICAL LOADING MANAGEMENT OF TRIBOLOGICAL CONTACT [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
At present, rail transport in connection with the economic situation is very important for solving the problems associated with increasing the efficiency and economy of the railway transport.
HORBUNOV, Nykolai   +3 more
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INVESTIGATION OF CONTACT PENDANTS C-2C-3, YC120-2CS150 AND YC150-2CS150 TYPES

open access: yesNauka ta progres transportu, 2008
The paper presents the OCL tests that have been carried out from the year1994 inthe PKP’s infrastructure, and which aim at construction of an OCL adapted for high speeds.
M. Kanaevski, A. Roek, A. Bialonj
doaj  

A REVIEW OF HIGH-SPEED RAIL PLAN IN JAVA ISLAND: A COMPARISON WITH EXISTING MODES OF TRANSPORT

open access: yesJournal of the Civil Engineering Forum, 2013
In order to provide better transportation systems, Indonesian Government is planning to develop a new high-speed rail system in Java that will connect two biggest cities in Java Island, Jakarta and Surabaya, with approximately 685 kilometers of entirely ...
Eko Hartono, Imam Muthohar
doaj   +1 more source

A Sustainable Approach to Innovation Adoption in Light-Rail Transport

open access: yesSustainability, 2020
This article primarily aims to understand how the Light-Rail Transport (LRT) pricing and infrastructural innovations from a Chinese context have been adopted to the Addis-Ababa city context. Secondly, it wishes to show what were the economic, social, and
T. Alade, J. Edelenbos, A. Gianoli
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Bus and train connections between towns in Lower Silesia under different operational models:Competition or complementarity?

open access: yesMoravian Geographical Reports, 2019
Relationships between the activities of bus carriers and rail passenger traffic (and the railway offer) are examined in this article. The study was carried out in peripheral areas located at the Polish and Czech borderlands in Lower Silesia province ...
Smolarski Mateusz   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

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