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The Use of UML to Development of a Railway Interlocking System

open access: yesAdvances in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 2003
The paper deals with problems of using the Unifield Modeling Lanfuage (UML) in developmentt of new railway interlocking and signalling systems. A simplifield example of the control circuit of a point machine is used to demonstrate an object-oriented ...
Karol Rastocny   +2 more
doaj  

Automatic instantiation of abstract tests on specific configurations for large critical control systems

open access: yes, 2013
Computer-based control systems have grown in size, complexity, distribution and criticality. In this paper a methodology is presented to perform an abstract testing of such large control systems in an efficient way: an abstract test is specified directly
Flammini, Francesco   +2 more
core  

Numerical and experimental characterization of a railroad switch machine [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
This contribution deals with the numerical and experimental characterization of the structural behavior of a railroad switch machine. Railroad switch machines must meet a number of safety-related conditions such as, for instance, exhibiting the ...
Croccolo, Dario   +4 more
core   +3 more sources

Between and Beyond: Negotiating Belonging Within Queer Borderlands

open access: yesNations and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Belonging is an affective, social and biopolitical phenomenon which is relationally negotiated and which produces material and symbolic ‘borders’. Subsequently, the politics of belonging refers to the construction, maintenance and policing of the borders of belonging.
Meg Poff
wiley   +1 more source

Autonomous Train Control System Principle: Fully Train‐Centric Route Generation and Track Resource Management

open access: yesIET Intelligent Transport Systems
The current moving block systems still depend on wayside interlocking systems and zone controllers, resulting in complex control flow and limited control efficiency.
Sehchan Oh   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Automatic Turn-back Scheme for City Railway Intervals Based on CTCS2+ATO Signaling System

open access: yesChengshi guidao jiaotong yanjiu
[Objective]When there is a malfunction or temporary operation schedule adjustment under public transit operational scenarios,the train turn-back in intervals is required for city railways using the CTCS2+ATO (Chinese train control system level 2 ...
WANG Yong   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Computers in Our Cosmos: Intersections in Geographies of Care, Abolition Geographies and Worker Movements

open access: yesTransactions of the Institute of British Geographers, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT AI assistants on spacecrafts. Netflix streamed through inter‐planetary communication networks. Colonies on Mars by 2050. While the glamorous public–private ventures into outer space curate discussions on the technical specificities of these proposed projects, this paper reorients discussions on such developments through critical frameworks of ...
Yung Au
wiley   +1 more source

Evaluation of planning policies for marshalling track allocation using simulation [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
Planning the operational procedures in a railway marshalling yard is a complex problem. When a train arrives at a marshalling yard, it is uncoupled on an arrival yard and then its cars are rolled to a classification yard.
Bohlin, Markus   +2 more
core   +1 more source

The Changing Nature of Sino-Foreign Business Relationships, 1842-1941 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2000
During the second half of the nineteenth century, foreign business enterprises relied considerably upon the service of compradors to extend their economic interests in the Chinese economy.
Chan, Kai Yiu, Cox, Howard
core   +2 more sources

“You Are Safe Now”: Migrant Youth Constructions of Safety and Schooling in the U.S.

open access: yesAnthropology &Education Quarterly, Volume 57, Issue 1, March 2026.
ABSTRACT Drawing on multisited ethnographic research with migrant families from Brazil, El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras who were detained, separated, or endured prolonged transit due to US immigration policies, we articulate how ideas of “relational safety” are situated in relationships with people, place, and time. Contrasting abundant literature
Michelle J. Bellino, Gabrielle Oliveira
wiley   +1 more source

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