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Laboratory compaction of unbound mixtures for road and rail uses and comparison of compaction procedures
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Num. 12
Summary - The service life of a road and rail superstructure is strongly affected by the bearing capacity of the subgrade. The action of thickening the soil is an operation of absolute importance,... leggi tutto
Automatic passenger counting on buses for local public transport: evaluation of the reliability of a system based on pressure sensors
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Num. 11
Summary - The period of the COVID-19 pandemic imposed interpersonal distancing in various places, first of all, for public transport: knowing automatically the passengers on board would have been... leggi tutto
The Tunnel Information Model for strategic infrastructure works
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Num. 11
Summary - In a modern world aimed at the digitisation of processes and information, Information Modelling represents an advanced way of representing the Information and Organisation Project in the... leggi tutto
Cosa si può fare affinché una misura sia sempre più utile?
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Num. 10
Summary - The evolution of electronics technology in the field of sensors has led to an incredible increase of data from measurements in all sectors. One problem that has arisen is that these... leggi tutto
Hydrogen-powered trains operation: normative constraints and assessment on a cases study
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Num. 10
Summary - The use of Hydrogen-powered propulsion in railways is very promising and already found relevant commercial applications. Some potential barriers emerged anyway as critical issues addressed... leggi tutto
Aerodynamic analysis of a high-speed train using computational fluid dynamics technique
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Num. 9
Summary - A flow field analysis was conducted using CFD simulation to improve the aerodynamic performance and reduce drag coefficient of high-speed trains. A comparison of two different front shapes... leggi tutto
SEMOR: Safety Enhancement of Maintenance Operators in Railway worksite
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Num. 9
Summary - Safety on railway working sites is a crucial issue in ensuring that sentinels are not put at risk during the construction and maintenance of railway infrastructure. The SEMOR system... 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
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
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

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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
Evaluation of the workload of the Train Dispatcher
2018
Num. 6
Summary - The paper shows the development of a method to quantify the workload of Control Room Train Dispatchers (DCO), in order to ensure fair allocation of activities based on homogeneous... read all
‘Big Data’ opportunities for new transport models and services
2018
Num. 5
Summary - The vast diffusion of mobile location and communication devices continuously produce a huge amount of data (‘Big Data’) that can be exploited to im- prove the knowledge about the state of... read all

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