RAILWAY STATIONS ON FOREIGN TERRITORY

The article reveals the main reasons that hinder the development of infrastructure and logistics of Russian grain exports. These include, first of all, the underdevelopment of production, transport and market infrastructure; traditional discrepancy between the placement of grain production volumes and the capacities of elevators and granaries; significant stretching of rail and road communications, as well as shortcomings in the use of vehicles; the imperfection of the logistics schemes for the promotion of grain cargo and the relatively high cost of the services provided during their storage and transshipment. Therefore, the accelerated development of infrastructure and transport and logistics support for grain export deliveries in the country should include: an increase of almost one and a half times the nominal grain transshipment capacity; priority development of port infrastructure in the Baltic and Azov-Black Sea basins; increase in throughput capacity of port railway stations, access roads and highways; improving the management of grain commodity flows, the basis of which should be the introduction and development of the principles, forms and methods of logistics, the development and implementation of logistics schemes; reduction of infrastructure and logistics costs within the vertical grain supply chain.

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D’une hétérotopie à l’autre où le vagabondage au féminin (Jean Echenoz, Un an)

Quêtes littéraires ◽

10.31743/ql.4583 ◽

2014 ◽

pp. 156-163

Author(s):

Simona Jişa

Keyword(s):

Point Of View ◽

Standard Of Living ◽

Human Being ◽

The South ◽

Railway Stations ◽

Spatial Point ◽

Strong Feeling ◽

Continuous Decrease ◽

One Year ◽

Jean Echenoz

Jean Echenoz’s text presents Victoria’s story who runs away from Paris, believing that she has killed her lover. Her straying (that embraces the form of a relative deterritorialization in a Deleuzian sense) lasts one year and it is built up geographically upon a descent (more or less symbolical) to the South of France and, after that, she comes back to Paris and encloses the spatial and textual curl. From a spatial point of view, she turns into a heterotopia (Foucault) every place where she is located, fact that reflects her incapability of constituting a personal, intimate space. The railway stations, the trains, the hotels, the improvised houses of those with no fixed abode are turning, according to Marc Augé’s terminology, into a « non-lieux » that excludes human being. Her vagrancy is characterized through a continuous flight from police and people and through a continuous decrease of her standard of living and dignity. It’s not about a quest of oneself, but about a loss of oneself. Urged by a strong feeling of culpability, her vagrancy is a self-punishment that comes to an end when the concerns of her problems disappear and she finds out that her lover is alive.

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The impact of gap dimensions on passengers boarding and alighting using different mobility aids at railway stations by laboratory experiments

International Journal of Rail Transportation ◽

10.1080/23248378.2020.1836685 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 9 (2) ◽

pp. 186-202

Author(s):

Sebastian Seriani ◽

Rodrigo Fernández ◽

Constanza Oyanedel

Keyword(s):

Laboratory Experiments ◽

Railway Stations ◽

Mobility Aids ◽

The Impact

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Cooperative Operation Schedules of Energy Storage System and Demand Response Resources Considering Urban Railway Load Characteristic under a Time-of-Use Tariff

Journal of Electrical Engineering and Technology ◽

10.1007/s42835-021-00670-3 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 16 (3) ◽

pp. 1273-1284

Author(s):

Hye Ji Kim ◽

Hosung Jung ◽

Young Jun Ko ◽

Eun Su Chae ◽

Hyo Jin Kim ◽

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Keyword(s):

Energy Storage ◽

Demand Response ◽

Air Conditioning ◽

Linear Problem ◽

Storage System ◽

Energy Charge ◽

Energy Storage System ◽

Peak Reduction ◽

Railway Stations ◽

Charging And Discharging Processes

AbstractThis paper proposes an algorithm for the cooperative operation of air conditioning facilities and the energy storage system (ESS) in railway stations to minimize electricity. Unlike traditional load patterns, load patterns of an urban railway station can peak where energy charge rates are not high. Due to this possibility, if applying the traditional peak-reduction algorithm to railway loads, energy changes can increase, resulting in higher electricity bills. Therefore, it is required to develop a new method for minimizing the sum of capacity charges and energy charges, which is a non-linear problem. To get a feasible solution for this problem, we suggest an algorithm that optimizes the facility operation through two optimizations (primary and secondary). This method is applied to the air-quality change model for operating air conditioning facilities as demand-response (DR) resources in railway stations. This algorithm makes it possible to estimate operable DR capacity every hour, rather than calculating the capacity of DR resources conservatively in advance. Finally, we perform a simulation for the application of the proposed method to the operation of DR resources and ESS together. The simulation shows that electricity bills become lowered, and the number of charging and discharging processes of ESS is also reduced.

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A Century of French Railways: The Value of Remote Sensing and VGI in the Fusion of Historical Data

ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information ◽

10.3390/ijgi10030154 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 10 (3) ◽

pp. 154

Author(s):

Robert Jeansoulin

Keyword(s):

Remote Sensing ◽

Meta Analysis ◽

Computer Assisted ◽

Railway Network ◽

Reconstruction Process ◽

Railway Stations ◽

Eu Member States ◽

Public Data ◽

Public Datasets

Providing long-term data about the evolution of railway networks in Europe may help us understand how European Union (EU) member states behave in the long-term, and how they can comply with present EU recommendations. This paper proposes a methodology for collecting data about railway stations, at the maximal extent of the French railway network, a century ago.The expected outcome is a geocoded dataset of French railway stations (gares), which: (a) links gares to each other, (b) links gares with French communes, the basic administrative level for statistical information. Present stations are well documented in public data, but thousands of past stations are sparsely recorded, not geocoded, and often ignored, except in volunteer geographic information (VGI), either collaboratively through Wikipedia or individually. VGI is very valuable in keeping track of that heritage, and remote sensing, including aerial photography is often the last chance to obtain precise locations. The approach is a series of steps: (1) meta-analysis of the public datasets, (2) three-steps fusion: measure-decision-combination, between public datasets, (3) computer-assisted geocoding for ‘gares’ where fusion fails, (4) integration of additional gares gathered from VGI, (5) automated quality control, indicating where quality is questionable. These five families of methods, form a comprehensive computer-assisted reconstruction process (CARP), which constitutes the core of this paper. The outcome is a reliable dataset—in geojson format under open license—encompassing (by January 2021) more than 10,700 items linked to about 7500 of the 35,500 communes of France: that is 60% more than recorded before. This work demonstrates: (a) it is possible to reconstruct transport data from the past, at a national scale; (b) the value of remote sensing and of VGI is considerable in completing public sources from an historical perspective; (c) data quality can be monitored all along the process and (d) the geocoded outcome is ready for a large variety of further studies with statistical data (demography, density, space coverage, CO2 simulation, environmental policies, etc.).

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Gender Inequality in Safety and Security Perceptions in Railway Stations

Sustainability ◽

10.3390/su13074007 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 13 (7) ◽

pp. 4007

Author(s):

Pierluigi Coppola ◽

Fulvio Silvestri

Keyword(s):

Gender Gap ◽

Public Transport ◽

Stated Preference ◽

Revealed Preference ◽

Behavioral Models ◽

Mobility Patterns ◽

Railway Stations ◽

Commercial Activities ◽

Transport Services ◽

Disaggregate Data

Recent studies have shown that gender is the personal aspect that mostly affects mobility patterns and travel behaviors. It has been observed, for instance, that female perception of unsafety and insecurity when traveling using public transport forces them to make unwanted travel choices, such as avoiding traveling at certain times of day and to specific destinations. In order to improve the attractiveness of public transport services, this gender gap must not be overlooked. This paper aims at contributing to research in gendered mobility by investigating differences in safety and security perceptions in railway stations, and by identifying which policies could be effective in bridging any existing gap. The methodology includes the collection of disaggregate data through a mixed Revealed Preference/Stated Preference survey, and the estimation of fixed and random parameters behavioral models. Results from a medium-sized Italian railway station show that female travelers feel safer in the presence of other people; they prefer intermodal infrastructures close to the entrance of the station and commercial activities in the internal premises. Moreover, unlike male travelers, they do not appreciate the presence of hedges and greenery outside stations.

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Research on the Freight Station Layout

Applied Mechanics and Materials ◽

10.4028/www.scientific.net/amm.380-384.4506 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 380-384 ◽

pp. 4506-4510

Author(s):

Miao Du ◽

Yong Qin ◽

Zi Yang Wang ◽

Zhong Xin Zhao ◽

Hong Fei Yu ◽

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Keyword(s):

Integer Programming ◽

Mixed Integer Programming ◽

Programming Model ◽

Rapid Expansion ◽

Mixed Integer ◽

Railway Stations ◽

Integer Programming Model ◽

Rail Freight ◽

Mixed Integer Programming Model ◽

Train Operation

At present, there are many problems existing in railway stations, such as excessive numbers and over-crowded layout, which seriously affect the scale benefit generation and rapid expansion of rail freight capacity. Aimed at these problems, a Mixed Integer programming model is proposed. Taking Lanzhou train operation depot for example, applying lingo software, the layout of freight station is obtained.

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