The study evaluates the feasibility of running passenger train service from Las Vegas, NV on the Union Pacific Railroad (UPRR), to Barstow, on the Burlington Northern Santa Fe (BNSF) track, to Mojave on UPRR track aga...
1Introduction Data are at the heart of intelligent rail systems in the high-speed transportation sector(Zhou et al.,2020;Ho et al.,2021;Hu et al.,2021;Chen et al.,2022).The core of modern intelligent railroad systems ...
This work was partially carried out under the framework of In2Track,a research project of Shift2Rail.This work was partly financed by FCT/MCTES through national funds(PIDDAC)under the R&D Unit Institute for Sustainability and Innovation in Structural Engineering(ISISE);under reference UIDB/04029/2020;It has been also financially supported by national funds through FCT—Foundation for Science and Technology,under grant agreement[PD/BD/127814/2016]attributed to Ana Ramos.
The type of subgrade of a railroad foundation is vital to the overall performance of the track structure.With the train speed and tonnage increase,as well as environmental changes,the evaluation and influence of subgr...
This research was supported by a grant from R&D Program of the Korea Railroad Research Institute,Republic of Korea.
This paper is on the suggestion of maintenance items for electric railway facility systems.With the recent increase in the use of electric locomotives,the utilization and importance of railroad electrical facility sys...
This paper discusses the U.S. Environmental Agency’s potential improper expansion of its authority under the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA), the federal pesticide statute, to regulate not...
The train from Changchun to Urumqi covers 4,510 kilometers.It takes 57 hours and 57minutes.Since it began operating on July 1,2014,the Urumqi crew for Changchun passenger service has been providing thoughtful activiti...
Background: Surgical Chest drain insertion is a lifesaving procedure. It requires skills and experience towards its prompt insertion. Quite often there is delay or failure caused in its insertion due to excessive fat ...
This article reports results of a survey of railroad tie management conducted by the Association of American Railroads (AAR) reflecting 2017 practices. Similar surveys were previously conducted for 2013 and 2008 pract...
support of Secretary of Science and Technology of UTN, CONICET;the National Agency for Scientific and Technological Promotion and Engineering Department of UNS
We evaluate the feasibility of recovering energy from the vibrations of track and sleepers,during passage of a high-speed train,by means of a pendulum harvester.A simple mathematical model of the parametric pendulum i...
In the history of the Underground Railroad,there is,perhaps,no one more important than Harriet Tubman.Harriet Tubman was a conductor on the Underground Railroad.She was so famous that even the mention (说起) of her na...