Telecommunications supporting signalling and railway operations

<p>In order to use urban space effectively in Transit-Oriented Development (TOD), over-track buildings (built over railways), are becoming increasingly popular in Japan. From a construction and structural design point of view, the basement structure just beneath railways generally cannot be built while railway operations continue (interruption to operations is not permitted, In general).</p><p>This paper presents the structural design of a mid-story isolated high-rise building constructed over railways in Ikebukuro, Tokyo. The paper shows, not only the philosophy of the system, but also the structural design, full-scale experiments, and evaluation of the performance in each structural element. The authors believe that such a structural design will be one of the effective solutions to the over-track building.</p>

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Cross-border Railway Operations: Building Safety at Cultural Interfaces

Rail Human Factors ◽

10.4324/9781315089201-36 ◽

2017 ◽

pp. 393-409

Author(s):

S.O. Johnsen ◽

I.A. Herrera ◽

J. Vatn ◽

R. Rosness

Keyword(s):

Cross Border ◽

Railway Operations ◽

Building Safety

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Railway Operations Models

Intelligent Transportation and Planning ◽

10.4018/978-1-5225-5210-9.ch033 ◽

2018 ◽

pp. 745-767

Author(s):

Sundaravalli Narayanaswami

Keyword(s):

Prior Knowledge ◽

Conceptual Understanding ◽

Real World ◽

Analytical Approach ◽

Model Development ◽

Transportation Industry ◽

Railway Transportation ◽

Academic Context ◽

Railway Operations ◽

Transportation Scheduling

This chapter is intended as an exposure to OR based methods, particularly the analytical approach to modelling railway operations. An overview of several planned operations in railway transportation is provided in an academic context. Some of the applications and the associated models are applied in realistic settings in the transportation industry, and also have demonstrated evidence of acceptance over a long number of years. Primary coverage is on transportation scheduling and the concise discussions are on planning phases, various operations that can be deterministically modeled and analysed, model development, few exercises and real-world stories, wherever appropriate. All sections are adequately provided with the list of references and an interested reader can benefit from a conceptual understanding to model development and to implement and deploy, under some prior knowledge on the basics and programming experience.

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