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Fair and sustainable railway transport at the service of the whole community
2 022
Numero:
Num. 10
Summary - The paper proposes some critical reflections relating to rail transport of people in Europe, with an indepth analysis on the Italian context. Some large numbers relating to high-speed... leggi tutto
Ecologia delle Infrastrutture Viarie a tutela dell’ambiente: concetti e criteri per una ricerca allargata alle discipline trasportistiche
2 022
Numero:
Num. 10
Summary - The paper moves from the scientific literature on Road Ecology and Railway Ecology to merge related concepts and criteria under a single definition: Ecology of Transportation Infrastructure... leggi tutto
Periodic equilibrium oscillations in the diffusion processes of transport innovations
2 022
Numero:
Num. 9
Summary - It often happens that the introduction of an innovation in the transport world is not accompanied by the adjustment of its characteristics to the increase in its utilizations, and that... leggi tutto
From “advertising boards” ... to “signage system” History, design, planning and fixed message signage standards in Italian railway stations
2 022
Numero:
Num. 9
Summary - This article aims to offer an “overview” of the design and methodological criteria with which RFI, and before that FS, have addressed the issue of fixed message signage in railway stations... leggi tutto
CEI EN 50119:2021-01 The new edition of the reference standard for the overhead contact lines
2 022
Numero:
Num. 8
Summary - The scope of this paper is to describe the new edition of CEI EN 50119, which is the reference standard for the overhead contact lines, focusing on its innovative aspects in comparison with... leggi tutto
The evolution of national and international railway passenger services in european reality
2 022
Numero:
Num. 8
Summary - The European disciplines launched in the last decade of the 1900s to introduce competition into railway transport system, guarantee access to the infrastructure without discrimination and... leggi tutto
Check rail of turnouts
2 022
Numero:
Num. 6
Summary - The check rails of rail turnouts are responsible for protecting the integrity of the crossing nose. The relative action on the axes in transit – whose frequency of occurrence is analysed –... leggi tutto
Trackwork-systems: design requirements setting and verification by a preliminary quantitative engineering model
2 022
Numero:
Num. 6
Summary - The design Setting-out and Verification Process are key pillars in the current railway context, trackwork- systems included. During typical activities, it is common to verify, in some... leggi tutto
Method for analysis and identification of adhesion coefficient through on-board sensors
2 022
Numero:
Num. 5
Summary - The digitalization of data and the technological development of systems in the railway field offer countless advantages, including the ease of reading, processing and transmission of the... leggi tutto
Improving train accessibility: lessons learned from the CARBODIN project
2 022
Numero:
Num. 5
Summary - This work, carried out within the CARBODIN EU-funded project, aims to study the impacts of a new train boarding device conceived as an innovative solution that improves train accessibility... leggi tutto

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Evaluation of rail conductances
2017
Num. 12
Summary - In this paper a study relevant to the rail conductances, self and mutual, for both single and double railway lines track is presented; such a study is performed by means of Boundary Element... read all
The innovative JRC15 3kVDC pantograph
2017
Num. 11
Summary - This article is intended as a first approach to the presentation of the JRC15 pantograph, developed as an innovative subsystem for regional and intercity rolling stock equipment, on medium... read all
Analysis and assessment of eco-driving strategies for train drivers training
2017
Num. 11
Summary - In the framework of increasing attention, at European level, for environmental protection and energy saving, represented by the objectives of the 20-20-20 Package, part of the European... read all
A quantitative model for the analysis of railway accessibility with bimodal vehicle in emergency conditions
2017
Num. 10
Summary - This paper proposes a quantitative method for evaluating the accessibility of railway routes in the open air under emergency conditions using the bimodal road/rail vehicle supplied to the... read all
Cable driven Automated People Movers for urban applications: modelling the roller for investigating energy consumption
2017
Num. 9
Summary - The importance of cable driven APMs (Automated People Movers) has become much higher in the recent years, for hourly capacities up to nearly 8-9 thousand passengers per direction. This is... read all
Experimental data measured with an On Board Unit for condition monitoring of freight wagons
2017
Num. 8
Summary - This paper presents the experimental data measured with an On Board Unit (OBU) realized within the research group of Railway Engineering of Politecnico di Torino. The prototype was... read all
Some suggestions about forgotten and may be new parameters to evaluate the performance of rapid transit systems
2017
Num. 5
Summary - A proposal is done to rationalize the parame- ters defìning Rapid Transit Systems’ general performances. This is achieved by converting Mechanical motion mea- sures into corresponding... read all
Design of safe Light Rail Transit (LRT) roundabouts
2017
Num. 2
Summary - While travelling at-grade in an urban environ- ment, a Light Rail Transit (LRT) system needs to traverse road intersections of various complexities. These intersec- tions, including... read all
Sequential safety machines: application logic in the railway sector
2017
Num. 1
Summary - Sequential machines are machines equipped with rudimentary “artificial thinking” formed by their “internal state” or memory [1]. This artificial intelli- gence can help in activities... read all
Methodology for the experiment of GPS system for train positioning
2016
Num. 11
Summary - This paper analyses the application of satellite technologies to the railway sector, where such technologies are playing an increasingly important role for signaling, communications,... read all

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