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Assessing Experiences and Visual Perception in Train Station Environments with a Mobile Application and Eye Tracking

Andrea Regula Schneider

The Customer Experience Management at the Swiss Federal Railways (SBB) experiments with new technologies and methods to capture experiences and perceptions of passengers to design safe and customer friendly environments. First, a new methodological approac ...

2022

Renewal of a fixed railway track using UHPFRC - first use worldwide of UHPFRC in rail track construction, part 1

Eugen Brühwiler, Antonina Hochuli

This two-part article reports on the renewal and adaptation of the fixed railway track in the heavily frequented underground train station at Zurich Airport. The fixed track built in 1980 had reached the service duration predicted by the system provider an ...

2021

Strengthening of Steel Connections in a 92-Year-Old Railway Bridge Using Prestressed CFRP Rods: Multiaxial Fatigue Design Criterion

Alain Nussbaumer, Elyas Ghafoori, Masoud Motavalli, Hossein Heydarinouri

This paper presented a new retrofit system for strengthening the stringer-to-floor-beam double-angle connections in a 92-year-old riveted railway bridge in Switzerland, using prestressed carbon fiber-reinforced polymer (CFRP) rods. The strengthening system ...

ASCE-AMER SOC CIVIL ENGINEERS2021

Estimation of pedestrian origin-destination demand in train stations

Michel Bierlaire, Flurin Silvan Hänseler, Nicholas Alan Molyneaux

We present a framework for estimating pedestrian demand within a train station. It takes into account ridership data, and various direct and indirect indicators of demand. Such indicators may include link flow counts, density measurements, survey data, his ...

Informs2017

Passenger Centric Train Timetabling Problem

Michel Bierlaire, Mohammad Yousef Maknoon, Shadi Sharif Azadeh, Tomas Robenek, Jianghang Chen

The aim of this paper is to analyze and to improve the current planning process of the passenger railway service in light of the recent railway market changes. In order to do so, we introduce the Passenger Centric Train Timetabling Problem. The originality ...

Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd2016

Assessing the usage and level-of-service of pedestrian facilities in train stations: A Swiss case study

Michel Bierlaire, Flurin Silvan Hänseler, Riccardo Scarinci

A framework for assessing the usage and level-of-service of rail access facilities is presented. It consists of two parts. A dynamic demand estimator allows to obtain time-dependent pedestrian origin-destination demand within walking facilities. Using that ...

Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd2016

Analysis of Ballast Transport in the Event of Overflowing of the Drainage System on High Speed Lines

Giovanni De Cesare, Tamara Ghilardi, Elena Battisacco, Mona Jafarnejad Chaghooshi

The transport of ballast caused by the overflowing of longitudinal drains is a prime example of the interactions between the railway track and its environment. In such conditions, water flowing from the platform, along with debris, may drag the ballast off ...

2015

The effect of magnetic islands on ITG turbulence driven transport

In this work, we address the question of the influence of magnetic islands on the perpendicular transport due to steady-state ITG turbulence on the energy transport time scale. We demonstrate that turbulence can cross the separatrix and enhance the perpend ...

American Institute of Physics (AIP)2015

On the online track assignment problem

Benjamin Leroy-Beaulieu

This paper aims to start an analytical study of the computational complexity of some online We analyze the following problem. Consider a train station consisting of a set of parallel tracks. Each track can be approached from one side only or from both side ...

2012

Modelling degradation processes of switches & crossings for maintenance & renewal planning on the Swiss railway network

Approximately 25 percent of the budget for the maintenance and renewal of railway tracks –in Switzerland more than a billion Swiss Francs– is used for the switches (points) and crossings (S&C). While in the mean time the budget expenditure for the maintena ...

EPFL2009

Defining Degradation Processes of Switches Crossings for Maintenance Renewal Planning

Approximately 25 percent of the budget for the maintenance and renewal of railway tracks is used for the switches (points) and crossings (S&C). While in the mean time the budget expenditure for the maintenance and renewal of plain track is optimized with e ...

2008