In the current era, digital twins serve as a critical technological advancement, enabling real-time monitoring and predictive analysis that significantly improve the efficiency, safety, and sustainability of various infrastructures. Despite their ...

Rail is becoming the backbone of the European sustainable smart mobility. Nevertheless, Europe is experiencing a severe staff shortage for a rapidly developing but increasingly aging sector. In order to meet the rail development trends and to ...

Modern, high-speed, railway transportation requires rails to conform strictly to requirements specified in various standards. One key requirement is the conformance of the dimensions of the rail cross section to those of the corresponding rail ...

A large amount of heat is accumulated in rails during the repeated conditions, which degrades the sliding electrical contact performance. It can shorten the life of pulsed high current linear driver. Therefore, it is necessary to cooling the rails ...

Modern railway vehicles have a growing requirement in monitoring and control systems due to the simultaneously increase in customer worldwide. These systems provide significant improvement in fields like performance, safety comfort and reducing costs. ...

The aim was to investigate the effects of automatic speed control and expertise on train driver performance in unexpected, degraded operations in the railway domain. Research from other domains suggested increasing levels of automation to exert ...

The ARTEMIS 1 project DEWI ("Dependable Embedded Wireless Infrastructure") focusses on the area of wireless sensor / actuator networks and wireless communication. With its four industrial domains (Aeronautics, Automotive, Rail, and Building) and 21 ...

To conduct a research on rail surface irregularity is quite significant for the vehicle operation, the design of rail track and the scientific evaluation on rail status. This paper, based on non-contact measurement principle, with a powerful Lab VIEW ...

The current study was undertaken to inform the development of simulations for improving train driver’s decision making under degraded track conditions. Trains are sophisticated heavy machinery and their performance is ever increasing resulting in the ...