Optical Fiber Sensor Design for Ground Slope Movement Monitoring for Railway Safety Operations
Conference Proceeding
Hook, D., Laing, W., Kerrouche, A., Barreto Gonzalez, D., & Alwis, L. S. (2018)
Optical Fiber Sensor Design for Ground Slope Movement Monitoring for Railway Safety Operations. In 2018 IEEE Sensors Proceedings. , (1-4). https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSENS.2018.8589835
Scour and slope instability are a major issue in keeping the railway structures safe and operational. Conventional measurement techniques do not allow real-time monitoring of ...
Drivers for vertical integration in the rail sector: using wagons as “relationship specific assets"
Journal Article
Monios, J., & Bergqvist, R. (2016)
Drivers for vertical integration in the rail sector: using wagons as “relationship specific assets". International Journal of Logistics Management, The, 27(2), 533-551. https://doi.org/10.1108/IJLM-01-2015-0021
Purpose – This paper uses a combination of transaction cost economics (TCE), the resource-based view (RBV) and the relational view to analyse vertical integration in the rail ...
Machine vision approach for automating vegetation detection on railway tracks.
Journal Article
Yella, S., Nyberg, R., Payvar, B., Dougherty, M., & Gupta, N. K. (2013)
Machine vision approach for automating vegetation detection on railway tracks. Journal of Intelligent Systems, 22, 179-196. https://doi.org/10.1515/jisys-2013-0017
The presence of vegetation on railway tracks (amongst other issues) threatens track safety and longevity. However, vegetation inspections in Sweden (and elsewhere in the world...
Rail Freight in Great Britain – has privatisation made a noticeable difference?
Presentation / Conference
Cowie, J. (2012, January)
Rail Freight in Great Britain – has privatisation made a noticeable difference?. Presented at 44th Annual Conference of the University Transport Study Group, University of Aberdeen
This paper briefly outlines the main changes brought about by the Railways Act 1993 with regard to the rail freight sector and then examines development of the sector since th...
Condition monitoring of wooden railway sleepers
Journal Article
Yella, S., Dougherty, M., & Gupta, N. K. (2009)
Condition monitoring of wooden railway sleepers. Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies, 17, 38-55. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.trc.2008.06.002
Wooden railway sleeper inspections in Sweden are currently performed manually by a human operator; such inspections are to large extent based on visual analysis. In this paper...
The ReOrient knowledge base.
Other
Wigan, M. & Kukla, R. (2007)
The ReOrient knowledge base.
REORIENT will create a Knowledge Base, which will serve as a repository of information, data and outputs from its analytical work and will support the Commission in formulatin...
Artificial intelligence techniques for the automatic interpretation of data from non-destructive testing.
Journal Article
Yella, S., Dougherty, M. S. & Gupta, N. K. (2006)
Artificial intelligence techniques for the automatic interpretation of data from non-destructive testing. Insight - Non-Destructive Testing & Condition Monitoring. 48, 10-20. doi:10.1784/insi.2006.48.1.10. ISSN 1354-2575
This paper attempts to summarise the findings of a large
number of research papers deploying artificial intelligence
(AI) techniques for the automatic interpretation of data f...
Mathematical modelling and computer simulations of induced voltage calculations in AC electric traction.
Thesis
Abdulaziz, I. M. Mathematical modelling and computer simulations of induced voltage calculations in AC electric traction. (Thesis)
Edinburgh Napier University. Retrieved from http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/id/eprint/3845
Production economics of a vertically separated railway – The case of the British train operating companies.
Journal Article
Cowie, J. (2002)
Production economics of a vertically separated railway – The case of the British train operating companies. Trasporti europei, 5, 45-52
This paper focuses on the production economics issues
surrounding the vertical separation of infrastructure
from rail services with regard to passenger operations. A
case stud...
Continuous surface wave and impact methods of measuring the stiffness and density of railway ballast
Journal Article
Fairfield, C., & Zagyapan, M. (2002)
Continuous surface wave and impact methods of measuring the stiffness and density of railway ballast. NDT and E International, 35(2), 75-81. https://doi.org/10.1016/s0963-8695%2801%2900034-2
Continuous surface wave and transient impact excitation tests were performed on strips of ballast to monitor their compaction. The ballast's shear wave velocity, hence the rat...