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This paper presents the formulation of a train formation problem in rail loading stations (TFLS) from the systematic perspective. Several patterns of train formation are analyzed thoroughly before modeling, including direct single-commodity trains, d...

Busy, complex railway stations that serve as origin and termination points for a significant proportion of trains are essential to regional railway networks. Resolving conflicts between arrival–departure operations and shunting operations of cr...

Buildings have significant impacts on the environment throughout their life cycle in terms of energy and water consumption, material usage, and waste generation. This study aims to evaluate the Sivas Train Station and Sivas High-Speed Train Station b...

Within transport systems, train stations cover a primary role as places where access to different modes of transport must be realised effectively, providing a valuable opportunity to make rail services, public transport, and soft mobility more attrac...

Cities that support cycling for transportation reap many public health benefits. However, the prevalence of this mode of transportation is low in Latin American countries and the association with facilities such as bike paths and train/subway station...

Metro stations are considered complex areas of pedestrian mobility due to the increasing congestion, due to the a high level of demand of different circulation spaces. Given this situation and the limited physical spaces remaining to develop transpor...

Train stations have increasingly become crowded, necessitating stringent requirements in the design of stations and commuter navigation through these stations. In this study, we explored the use of mobile eye tracking in combination with observation...

A multi-station high-speed railway hub is the interaction of multiple high-speed railway lines, and its operation determines the efficiency of the whole network. In this study, we focus on the train routing problem for a multi-station railway hub and...

Due to the highly developed rail transit over the past decades, the phenomena of complex individual self-organized behaviors and mass crowd dynamics have become a great concern in the train station. In order to understand passengers’ walking-ed...

Elevated stations are integral components of urban rail transit systems, significantly impacting passengers’ travel experience and the operational efficiency of the transportation system. However, current elevated station designs often do not s...

The Stuttgart S-Bahn network comprises six subway lines and is used by approximately 425,000 people on a daily basis. In previous studies in other cities, it was found that subways can be a source and collection point of particulate matter (PM), whic...

The necessity of air-conditioning causes the enormous energy use of underground train stations. Exergy and thermoeconomic analysis is applied to the annual operation of the air-conditioning system of a large underground train station in Taiwan. The c...

Large integrated station–bridge buildings combine track-bearing members, station floors, transfer structures, columns, and urban-rail facilities within a single coupled structural system. For such buildings, refined train–track–stat...

This paper focuses on optimizing the schedule of trains on railway networks composed of busy complex stations. A mathematical formulation of this problem is provided as a Mixed Integer Linear Program (MILP). However, the creation of an optimal new ti...

Next-generation Internet-of-Things applications pose challenges for sixth-generation (6G) mobile networks, involving large bandwidth, increased network capabilities, and remarkably low latency. The possibility of using ultra-dense connectivity to add...

This study presents a comprehensive method for calculating the passing capacity of high-speed rail hub stations, accommodating the complexity of intersecting train paths from multiple directions. Unlike traditional models, this approach distinguishes...

Transit delays can adversely affect passengers, operational efficiency, and daily lives. It is important to develop effective methods to identify and analyze train stations vulnerable to delays. This paper proposes a three-stage analytical framework...

This research paper proposes a Lagrangian method to address the passing capacity of the calculation problem (PCCP) for a hub station in a high-speed railway (HSR) system. The passing capacity of a hub station is critical for determining the train tim...

With the integrated development of high-speed railways and urban underground rail transit, large high-speed railway station buildings are often seamlessly connected or even co-constructed with subway structures, forming a complex structural system th...

Elevated stations serve as critical hubs in urban rail transit engineering. The structure of multi-line “building-bridge integrated” elevated stations is unique, with intricate force transfer paths and challenges to clarify dynamic coupli...

This paper provides an analysis of a designed underground station infrastructure for vacuum tube high-speed trains for the planned mega transport hub in Poland. The potential of integrating the infrastructure of the station building with sealed low-p...

Fuel station accidents still happen frequently all around the world. Accidents in fuel stations may cause harm to many. Fuel station environments must thus be managed well to maintain a high safety climate level. However, our literature review shows...

The platform–train interface (PTI) is one of the most complex spaces in metro stations. At the PTI, the interaction of boarding and alighting causes a high number of passengers to be present, affecting the boarding and alighting time, among oth...

Optimizing high-speed railway (HSR) timetables requires coordinated decisions on train stopping patterns and local feasibility constraints, such as headway separation and service ordering, particularly at stations where consecutive trains share infra...

To ameliorate the inflow state of the joint hub of a pump station and sluice, a γ-shaped settlement training wall was designed with its state adjusted automatically in line with the actual working condition of the project. The central composite...

The deployment of a miniature mobile-phone base station or small cell in a train car significantly improves the coverage and the capacity of a mobile network service on the train. However, the impact of the small cell on the passengers’ exposure to...

Reliable wireless connectivity in underground public transportation can vary with train position because rolling stock modifies propagation paths and local interference conditions. This study proposes a transport-state-aware radio-planning framework...

The objective of this paper was to analyze the effect of yellow-safety-line designs on the behavior of passengers at the platform edge in metro stations. To achieve this, an experimental approach, based on observation, was used in existing metro stat...

Manual work accounts for one of the largest workgroups in the European manufacturing sector, and improving the training capacity, quality, and speed brings significant competitive benefits to companies. In this context, this paper presents an informe...

This paper presents different prediction methods based on decision tree and ensemble learning to suggest possible next assembly steps. The predictor is designed to be a component of a sensor-based assembly assistance system whose goal is to provide s...

The train operation problem at the railway station is one of the basic scheduling problems for railway companies, and the decomposition and combination of trains in station platform tracks is an important trend in the railway operation, which further...

Almost all recently built subway stations are equipped with Platform Screen Doors (PSDs) due to the numerous proven benefits of these systems. In addition, PSDs are now being introduced in existing subway stations, but their operation in conjunction...

Pedestrian monitoring in crowded areas like train stations has an important impact in the overall operation and management of those public spaces. An organized distribution of the different elements located inside a station will contribute not only t...

A real-time flight simulation tool is proposed using a virtual reality head-mounted display (VR-HMD) for remotely piloted airships operating in beyond-line-of-sight (BLOS) conditions. In particular, the VR-HMD was developed for stratospheric airships...

Elaborated in several forms before being formally defined, virtually coupled train sets (VCTS) have become an issue for capacity increase with obvious shorter train intervals. As the station organization strategy is still ambiguous due to the lack of...

Urban rail transit systems, while alleviating traffic congestion, generate environmental vibrations that impact adjacent structures and residents, particularly during train acceleration and deceleration near stations. Existing research predominantly...

Using train-induced unsteady airflow in transitional seasons can greatly reduce the energy consumption of a subway station’s mechanical ventilation. However, the unsteady airflow carries the particles from tunnels into subway platforms, and air...

Timely predicting and controlling the traffic congestion in a station caused by an emergency is an important task in railway emergency management. However, traffic forecasting in an emergency is subject to a dynamic service network, with uncertainty...

When synthesizing systems for railway interlocking, it is recommended to use automated models to implement the logic of railway automation and remote control units. Finite-state machines (FSMs) can be implemented on any hardware component. When using...

Regional 10 m wind-speed products extend coverage beyond sparse station networks, but their errors vary with wind regime and location. This study evaluates a station-trained LightGBM correction of a 5 km WRF/HNR wind-speed product over Hainan Island....

Air pollution remains a critical global health concern, with 91% of the world’s population exposed to air quality exceeding World Health Organization (WHO) standards and indoor pollution causing approximately 3.8 million deaths annually due to...

This work presents a point cloud dataset of vehicles passing through a toll station in Colombia to be used to train artificial vision and computational intelligence algorithms. This article details the process of creating the dataset, covering initia...

This paper reviews the process of research, development and production of a training station for the optical recognition of dice parts with machine vision. This approach is chosen due to the lack of mechanical features to allow for classical orientat...

Transit-oriented development (TOD) and over-track buildings have been rapidly expanding in Chinese subways since their development. This new method is highly convenient for people while the influence of indoor vibration and noise in buildings is not...

Industrial assistive systems result from a multidisciplinary effort that integrates IoT (and Industrial IoT), Cognetics, and Artificial Intelligence. This paper evaluates the Prediction by Partial Matching algorithm as a component of an assembly assi...

This paper presents the concept of one possible but unconventional implementation of a Low Pressure Tube Transport (LPTT) system for a network with station-to-station distances of 300 km, based on the use of circular tunnels in which modular vehicles...

High NO₂ concentrations (long term average of 383 µg/m³ in 2016/2017) recorded at Birmingham New Street railway station have resulted in the upgrade of the bi-directional fan system to aid wind dispersion within the enclosed platform environmen...

This paper presents the idea of extending transfer nodes to mobility nodes as objects with more functions than just transport. Mobility hubs are often associated with large stations; however, they can be implemented at all or almost all stations. The...

Experts in diverse fields have investigated sound in cities throughout the United States. This research aims to examine sound levels and determine its contributors at the transit-oriented development (TOD) station and neighborhood levels by studying...

Railway stations are centers of mass accumulation of people. Additional regulations change the intensity of the flow of visitors and the time of entering the station. Delays become an essential factor affecting the perceived satisfaction with all ser...