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Study of the thermo-mechanical damage in steels for shoe-braked railway wheels using innovative small-scale tests
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Num. 8
Summary - The behavior of three railway wheel steels (HYPERLOS®, ER-TEN, and SUPERLOS®) coupled with two brake block materials (cast iron and organic composite) and R260 rail steel was studied by... leggi tutto
Analysis of a radio mobile communication network availability with reference to railway applications
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Num. 8
Summary - RFI and the University of Rome Tor Vergata launched in 2018 a research on the mobile radio system that could replace the GSM-R. At the start of the study, LTE was a strong candidate for... leggi tutto
Analysing London Gateway using event-based simulation modelling
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Num. 6
Summary – The scope of this paper is to give an insight into one of the main deep-sea ports in the United Kingdom, the London Gateway, which is a part of the Thames Gateway project and to indicate... leggi tutto
Advanced constitutive laws for nonlinear static analyses of a railway masonry bridge
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Num. 6
Summary - In recent years, the use of static non-linear analysis, the so-called pushover analysis, is increasingly common when dealing with seismic vulnerability assessment and mitigation of existing... leggi tutto
Assessing the speed of an electric multiple-unit freight train on high-speed lines
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Num. 5
Summary - This paper aims at establishing the most appropriate maximum cruising speed for a freight electric multiple unit (F-EMU), i.e., a concept of a new-generation freight train with distributed... leggi tutto
The tram in Oslo: renewal and modernization
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Num. 5
Summary - Oslo will be the first world capital with a fully electric public transport system by 2030. In this context, the so-called “Tram program” was started in 2013, which includes:– supply of 87... leggi tutto
Pantograph-rigid overhead interaction: a simplified method of analysis
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Num. 4
Summary - The study defines a simplified method of kinematic and dynamic analysis of the interaction between a pantograph and a rigid overhead contact line. The difficulty in finding specific... leggi tutto
Rail higher education in Europe: current situation analysis for future developments
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Num. 4
Summary - The paper aims at describing the activities developed within the project ASTONRAIL (Advanced approaches and practices for rail training and education to innovate rail study programmes... leggi tutto
Consequences of the ban on sale of internal combustion engine cars in Europe
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Num. 3
Summary - This paper studies the consequences of the imposition of the ban on sale of internal combustion engine cars (ICE) decided by the Parliament of the European Union. By using a dynamical model... leggi tutto
A multimodal model for the simulation of medium and long-distance mobility of people in Italy
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Num. 3
Summary - To overcome the limitations of stationary mobility models highlighted by the recent pandemic and geopolitical crises, with the support of ISFORT, Ferrovie dello Stato Italiane (FS) has... leggi tutto

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Energy load analysis of a fully automated hybrid cable-driven public transport system: simulation with a photovoltaic system and storage
2019
Num. 12
Summary - Bearing in mind that the advantages of cable-driven transport are basically due to its specific lower energy requirements than those of vehicles with traction aboard, to its capacity to... read all
Energy load analysis of a fully automated hybrid cable-driven public transport system: simulation with a photovoltaic system and storage
2019
Num. 12
Summary - Bearing in mind that the advantages of cable-driven transport are basically due to its specific lower energy  than those of vehicles with traction aboard, to its capacity to overcome... read all
The predictive maintenance of railway bridges through an Internet of Things framework. An implementation proposal
2019
Num. 10
Summary - In the field of civil infrastructures, the vast majority of those, built since the middle of the last century, are subject to a global deterioration of mechanical properties due to varied... read all
Dynamic aggregate models for forecasting of freight demand and road/railway modal split at the Brenner
2019
Num. 8
Summary - The article proposes an approach for estimating the evolution of the Brenner freight traffic demand based on econometric models and techniques for the analysis of historical series.... read all
Track gauge and flange wear
2019
Num. 4
Summary - Based on a historical-technical course, analyses are provided for an estimate of the relationship be- tween track gauge width and wear effects on the wheels of rolling stock. The gauge, in... read all
The use of open-source tools for the definition of the home-work trip plan: the case of Ente Autonomo Volturno
2019
Num. 2
Summary - The work presents a decision support sys- tem for the drafting of the “Home-Work Trip Plan (Italian acronym PSCL)”. In particular, an innovative methodology of aggregated estimate of the... read all
The reasons for the success of freight rail transport through the Swiss Alps
2019
Num. 1
Abstract - Freight exchange between North-Western Italy and the Western part of Central-Northern Europe uses three transport modes: the road transport formed by the routes that cross the Alps through... read all
Bringing back regularity on a collective transport line
2018
Num. 10
Abstract - Collective transport transit user judge and perceive the quality of the service using few parameters. First, “frequency”, on which depends waiting time and consequently time for transport... read all
Una famiglia di acciai innovativi per ruote monoblocco forgiate-laminate progettati per ambienti sabbiosi
2018
Num. 9
Summary - The report describes the properties of a new steel grade family for forged-rolled solid wheels alternative to AAR Class B/C/D steel grades, designed to increase the re- sistance to wear and... read all
Analytical methods and simulation approaches for determining the capacity of the Rome-Florence “Direttissima” line
2018
Num. 8
Summary - In this paper, different analytical methods for the determination of the hourly practical capacity of a high speed railway line are addressed and compared. Furthermore, for the assessment... read all

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