Design of an Intelligent Remote Monitoring and Control of Bangladesh Railway Transport System Using Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs)

Transport System ◽

Asset Management ◽

Transport Systems ◽

Railway Transport ◽

Sensors And Actuators ◽

Efficient Operation ◽

In Bangladesh, transport sectors are developing rapidly to meet the increasing demand for transporting passengers and freight inside and outside the country. But there is not such development in railway transport system. The Bangladesh Railway transport system is still using an old technology to monitor and control signalling, scheduling, operations etc. This paper describes various problems in the existing systems and also solutions have been provided considering the existing railway transport systems of Bangladesh. A new system has been developed to control and monitor the total railway transport system from remote locations. While designing the system, various sensors and actuators have been introduced and also Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) have been applied in the field of railway transport. So a Machatronics aspect of system has been designed to ensure a collision free, safe and efficient operation and management of railway transport system. This system is not only for monitoring and controlling of railway transport but also ensures efficient asset management. As a result face-to-face accidents, cross-road accidents and accidents due to railway line displacements or breakage can be avoided and there will be no loss of assets and valuable human lives.

Information System and Technology Optimization as a Tool for Ensuring the Competitiveness of a Railway Undertaking—Case Study

Sustainability ◽

10.3390/su12218915 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 12 (21) ◽

pp. 8915

Author(s):

Juraj Čamaj ◽

Eva Brumerčíková ◽

Michal Petr Hranický

Keyword(s):

Railway Transport ◽

Mathematical Methods ◽

Current State ◽

The World ◽

Research And Education

Information and communication technologies are becoming an increasingly important part of everyday life, as they facilitate many activities, mainly in the world of work, but also in scientific research and education. At present, informatics is one of the fastest growing sectors of the national economy. This development has had a significant impact on improving the quality of transport and transportation processes. The article is focused on the railway transport. It deals with the possibilities of planning the shifts of the train personnel and circulation of the vehicles. It describes the background of the topic. The scientific acquittance lies on the methodology proposed by authors. It presents a new idea of creating the shifts and circulations while being based on the current state and mathematical methods.

Energy, Carbon and Renewable Energy: Candidate Metrics for Green-aware Routing?

Sensors ◽

10.3390/s19132901 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 19 (13) ◽

pp. 2901 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Hossain ◽

Georges ◽

Rondeau ◽

Divoux

Keyword(s):

Renewable Energy ◽

Co2 Emissions ◽

Routing Algorithm ◽

Point Of View ◽

Energy Aware ◽

Traffic Demand ◽

There are all sort of indications that Internet usage will go only upwards, resulting in an increase in energy consumption and CO2 emissions. At the same time, a significant amount of this carbon footprint corresponds to the information and communication technologies (ICT) sector, with around one third being due to networking. In this paper we have approached the problem of green networking from the point of view of sustainability. Here, alongside energy-aware routing, we have also introduced pollution-aware routing with environmental metrics like carbon emission factor and non-renewable energy usage percentage. We have proposed an algorithm based on these three candidate-metrics. Our algorithm provides optimum data and control planes for three different metrics which regulate the usage of different routers and adapt the bandwidth of the links while giving the traffic demand requirements utmost priority. We have made a comparison between these three metrics in order to show their impact on greening routing. The results show that for a particular scenario, our pollution-aware routing algorithm can reduce 36% and 20% of CO2 emissions compared to shortest path first and energy-based solutions, respectively.

Application of ICT in effective crisis management: A systematic review

Journal of Emergency Management ◽

10.5055/jem.0612 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 19 (6) ◽

pp. 591-606

Author(s):

Mohammad Ali Fazeli, PhD ◽

Azamossadat Hosseini, PhD ◽

Farkhondeh Asadi, PhD ◽

Hassan Haghighi, PhD

Keyword(s):

Systematic Review ◽

Crisis Management ◽

Case Studies ◽

Ict Tools ◽

Basic Services ◽

And Control ◽

Crisis Managers

Introduction: Effective crisis management can reduce the costs and consequences of a crisis and has a significant impact on saving human lives in critical situations. Proper use of information and communication technologies (ICTs) can improve all crisis management phases and crisis communication cycles according to the needs of stakeholders. The purpose of this review article is to identify which ICTs have been used in effective crisis management and what managerial tasks they support.Method: A systematic review was conducted based on PRISMA protocol. The investigated articles that have been published in English were all indexed in PubMed, Science Direct, IEEE, Web of Science, and Google Scholar databases from 2005 to 2019. The keywords searched were “Crisis Management,” “Emergency Management,” “Information and Communication Technology,” and their synonyms.Results: A total of 1,703 articles were retrieved, and 81 articles that met the inclusion criteria were retained. In terms of content, there were 54 case studies/review articles, 38 proposals, and seven prototypes among which 18 case studies and proposals were the same. According to surveys, 18 ICT tools and technologies have been used in effective crisis management with the purpose of supporting managerial tasks such as situation assessment, decision-making, coordination/command and control, communication with the public, and supply of basic services in order to enable crisis management and logistics.Conclusion: This study showed that proper use of ICT can help crisis managers optimize their performance that will consequently result in effective crisis management and the reduction of casualties. In the crisis management cycle, several tools and technologies have been used for various purposes, however; some crisis managers’ tasks were still not taken into consideration sufficiently, and thus, some recommendations for further research in this field were provided.

Designing Privacy-Aware Intelligent Transport Systems

Research Anthology on Privatizing and Securing Data ◽

10.4018/978-1-7998-8954-0.ch027 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 589-609

Author(s):

Christos Kalloniatis ◽

Dimitris Kavroudakis ◽

Amalia Polidoropoulou ◽

Stefanos Gritzalis

Keyword(s):

Daily Basis ◽

Security And Privacy ◽

Transport Systems ◽

Intelligent Transport Systems ◽

Vast Number ◽

Privacy Concerns ◽

Intelligent Transport ◽

Information And Communication

Intelligent transport systems (ITSs) play a key role in people's daily activities. ITSs significantly improve mobility offering a variety of services to a vast number of users that increase on a daily basis, as more and new services are introduced. These services are based on advanced information and communication technologies (ICTs) and rely strongly on connectivity and computing resources. However, technical vulnerabilities of the technologies used in ITS, as well as the increase in users' awareness has brought security and privacy concerns to the forefront. This article aims at identifying a set of privacy concepts that provide the bases for designing trustworthy ITS services identifying possible threats and users' privacy concerns. A key contribution of the article is a roadmap that presents in detail how for every ITS function corresponding to privacy concepts can be realized for overcoming specific threats and users' privacy concerns in a smart city context.

Digital Advertising System in Urban Transport System of Žilina Town

Transport and Telecommunication Journal ◽

10.2478/ttj-2014-0019 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 15 (3) ◽

pp. 215-226

Author(s):

Radovan Madleňák ◽

Lucia Madleňáková

Keyword(s):

Transport System ◽

Marketing Research ◽

Urban Transport ◽

Technological Innovations ◽

Digital Signage ◽

The People ◽

Virtual Advertising

AbstractThe Internet and information and communication technologies (ICT) have changed everything: news, commerce, advertising, relating to others, getting information and transport too. It has changed how the people work, how they practice religion, how they date, how they spend the free time and how they travel. One of the technological innovations that are based on usage ICT in advertising space is digital signage. This article presents the results of research dedicated to investigate the relationships between customers-passengers and this new ICT technology in real environment. The results of the research stimulate the discussion about the future advertising practices in Žilina town. Based on the wide analysis of opportunities the digital signage technology in advertising practices, the presented marketing research investigates how passengers accept virtual advertising technology in urban transport system of Žilina town. Authors highlight the advantages of interactivity between digital signage technology and consumers. The conclusions of this article triggers further investigations in the area of the interactions between the digital advertising technology and passengers, and the passengers’ perception and acceptation of shopping activities on the basis of advertising in digital signage medias.

Social Autonomy and Heteronomy in the Age of ICT: The Digital Pharmakon and the (Dis)Empowerment of the General Intellect

Foundations of Science ◽

10.1007/s10699-015-9468-1 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 22 (2) ◽

pp. 287-296 ◽

Cited By ~ 7

Author(s):

Pieter Lemmens

Keyword(s):

Digital Networks ◽

Digital Revolution ◽

Digital Network ◽

Social Autonomy ◽

Network Technologies ◽

And Control ◽

General Intellect

Abstract ‘The art of living with ICTs (information and communication technologies)’ today not only means finding new ways to cope, interact and create new lifestyles on the basis of the new digital (network) technologies individually, as ‘consumer-citizens’. It also means inventing new modes of living, producing and, not in the least place, struggling collectively, as workers and producers. As the so-called digital revolution unfolds in the context of a neoliberal cognitive and consumerist capitalism, its ‘innovations’ are predominantly employed to modulate and control both production processes and consumer behavior in view of the overall goal of extracting surplus value. Today, the digital networks overwhelmingly destroy social autonomy, instead engendering increasing social heteronomy and proletarianization. Yet it is these very networks themselves, as technical pharmaka in the sense of French ‘technophilosopher’ Bernard Stiegler, that can be employed as no other to struggle against this tendency. This paper briefly explores this possibility by reflecting upon current diagnoses of our ‘technological situation’ by some exemplary post-operaist Marxists from a Stieglerian, pharmacological perspective.

Cyberbullying among University Students: Gendered Experiences, Impacts, and Perspectives

Education Research International ◽

10.1155/2014/698545 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 2014 ◽

pp. 1-10 ◽

Cited By ~ 53

Author(s):

Chantal Faucher ◽

Margaret Jackson ◽

Wanda Cassidy

Keyword(s):

Relational Aggression ◽

Theoretical Frameworks ◽

Power And Control ◽

Gender Similarities ◽

Affective Deficits ◽

The University ◽

Cyberbullying is an emerging issue in the context of higher education as information and communication technologies (ICT) increasingly become part of daily life in university. This paper presents findings from 1925 student surveys from four Canadian universities. The overall findings are broken down to determine gender similarities and differences that exist between male and female respondents’ backgrounds, ICT usage, experiences with cyberbullying, opinions about the issue, and solutions to the problem. We also examine the continuities between these findings and those of earlier studies on cyberbullying among younger students. Our findings also suggest that gender differences, which do emerge, provide some support for each of the three theoretical frameworks considered for understanding this issue, that is, relational aggression, cognitive-affective deficits, and power and control. However, none of these three models offers a full explanation on its own. The study thus provides information about cyberbullying behaviour at the university level, which has the potential to inform the development of more appropriate policies and intervention programs/solutions to address the gendered nature of this behaviour.

Information and Communication Technologies in Education:

International Journal for Innovation Education and Research ◽

10.31686/ijier.vol8.iss8.2560 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 8 (8) ◽

pp. 541-550

Author(s):

Marcus Henrique Linhares Ponte Filho

Keyword(s):

Elementary School ◽

Focus Groups ◽

Early Years ◽

Educational Context ◽

Phd Thesis ◽

And Control ◽

The City

This article is a product of the author's PhD Thesis, which investigated what teachers in the early years of elementary school think (and do) about the use of Information and Communication Technologies - ICT in the educational context. The research was conducted in a public school in the city of Fortaleza, Ceara State, and the data collected consists of discussions held in focus groups, with teachers and managers of the institution. The analyses were made from theoretical references of Educommunication, a field of research in expansion in Brazil, which defends the idea that educating must necessarily be a democratic and participatory act. The prevalence among educators of a discourse of fear and control over the use of ICT in school was verified through the promotion of a centralizing and authoritarian use of ICT during classes.

Expert Consensus on Telemedicine Management of Diabetes (2020 Edition)

International Journal of Endocrinology ◽

10.1155/2021/6643491 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 2021 ◽

pp. 1-12

Author(s):

Bo Zhang

Keyword(s):

Drug Therapy ◽

Diabetes Management ◽

Management Level ◽

Key Issues ◽

Treatment Of Diabetes ◽

Diabetes is a chronic disease that is very suitable for telemedicine management. Owing to the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, telemedicine management of diabetes is particularly important. This consensus proposes 38 recommendations for key issues in telemedicine management of diabetes and provides preliminary specifications for diabetes management. It is recommended to use the most current information and communication technologies for telemanagement of patients’ diet, exercise, behavior, and drug therapy. A strategy for drug therapy that is more suitable for telemedicine management of diabetes than previous ones is established. During online follow-up visits, major changes of antihyperglycemic agents must be avoided, and treatment modification should be done in a stepwise manner. Greater attention should be paid to the occurrence and prevention of hypoglycemia, in addition to educating patients about the side effects of the drugs used and encouraging them to actively report adverse drug reactions. Conditions are clarified under which online follow-up visits must be terminated and in-person visits or emergency visits must be initiated. Telemedicine can improve the management level and control rate of diabetes. The present consensus for the standardized diagnosis and treatment of diabetes can reduce the potential risks of telemedicine management, yield great benefits to patients, and reduce chronic complications and comorbidities.

Resilient Emergency Response

Crisis Response and Management and Emerging Information Systems ◽

10.4018/978-1-60960-609-1.ch009 ◽

2011 ◽

pp. 112-138 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Jiri Trnka ◽

Björn J.E. Johansson

Keyword(s):

Emergency Response ◽

Collaborative Work ◽

Command And Control ◽

Data Driven ◽

Design And Development ◽

Bottom Up ◽

The focus of this chapter is the design and development of Information and Communication Technologies that support collaborative work and processes in command and control teams, more specifically, in joint emergency response operations. The unique contexts and varying circumstances of response operations have an impact on how collaborative work and interactions among commanders emerge, as well as on the extent to which Information and Communication Technologies are used. This emergence of response operations poses specific methodological complications and demands on how to study command and control teams, and also how to approach high-level design problems. The chapter demonstrates how such analysis can be performed. It presents a study of scenario-based role-playing simulation with professionals – emergency management commanders – as participants. The study documents the work practice of a team of commanders from the Swedish local and regional emergency response organizations responding jointly to an emergency, a medium size forest fire. The study also identifies areas and/or activities that may be enhanced by command and control tools. A combined set of bottom-up data driven and top-down methods – topical episode analysis, communicative roles, socio-metric status and communication modelling – are used to assess communication and interactions among the commanders. The findings indicate that the studied commanders used informal arrangements within the established formal command and control structures, and took informal functions and communicative roles across organizational and domain boundaries to handle diverse incidents and so called pseudo-problems. This identified adaptive and improvised behaviour of the commanders – and the team as whole – was identified as a critical characteristic for effective command and control work in joint response operations. Cross-domain and cross-organizational knowledge was found to be the most important feature of this type of capability to adapt and improvise. The study, further, highlights the significance of employing bottom-up, data driven methods for analysis of design and development processes, as well as important methodological challenges related to this type of analysis.