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Journal articles on the topic "Train journeys"
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Kroes, Eric, and Fons Savelberg. "Substitution from Air to High-Speed Rail: The Case of Amsterdam Airport." Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board 2673, no. 5 (April 3, 2019): 166–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0361198119839952.
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In this paper we present the results of a study that aims to establish the potential for high-speed train travel as a substitute for short distance air travel at Amsterdam Airport. We investigated the 13 most important destinations that offer direct flights to and from Amsterdam Airport. Almost 40% of the air passengers travelling to/from these destinations are transfer passengers. Empirical evidence reveals that high-speed trains dominate the market for journeys of 2 hours or less, such as between Paris and Brussels. However, trains claim only a tiny market share of journeys longer than 5 to 6 hours; air travel dominates that market segment. Using these findings, we developed a model to estimate the substitution of air travel with high-speed train travel. The explanatory variables in this model are travel time, daily departure options, fares, and the inconvenience associated with transferring at airports. In a “minimum” scenario, we predict that in 2030 high-speed trains could replace approximately 1.9 million air journeys. This calculation is based on feasible reductions of train travel times and increased train frequencies for part of the rail network. In this scenario, Amsterdam–London accounts for more than three-quarters of the predicted substitution. In a “maximum” scenario, substitution could increase up to 3.7 million air journeys per year, provided that inconveniences for passengers when transferring at airports from plane to train are resolved and train ticket fares are reduced by 20%. These two scenarios imply a reduction of 2.5 to 5% of all flights to/from Amsterdam Airport in 2030.
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HOWLETT, PHIL. "THE TWO-TRAIN SEPARATION PROBLEM ON LEVEL TRACK WITH DISCRETE CONTROL." ANZIAM Journal 60, no. 2 (October 2018): 137–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1446181118000214.
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When two trains travel along the same track in the same direction, it is a common safety requirement that the trains must be separated by at least two signals. This means that there will always be at least one clear section of track between the two trains. If the safe-separation condition is violated, then the driver of the following train must adopt a revised strategy that will enable the train to stop at the next signal if necessary. One simple way to ensure safe separation is to define a prescribed set of latest allowed section exit times for the leading train and a corresponding prescribed set of earliest allowed section entry times for the following train. We will find strategies that minimize the total tractive energy required for both trains to complete their respective journeys within the overall allowed journey times and subject to the additional prescribed section clearance times. We assume that the drivers use a discrete control mechanism and show that the optimal driving strategy for each train is defined by a sequence of approximate speedholding phases at a uniquely defined optimal driving speed on each section and that the sequence of optimal driving speeds is a decreasing sequence for the leading train and an increasing sequence for the following train. We illustrate our results by finding optimal strategies and associated speed profiles for both trains in some elementary but realistic examples.
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Koutny, Maciej. "The Merlin-Randell problem of train journeys." Acta Informatica 23, no. 4 (July 1986): 429–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/bf00267866.
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Gündling, Felix, Florian Hopp, and Karsten Weihe. "Efficient monitoring of public transport journeys." Public Transport 12, no. 3 (September 12, 2020): 631–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12469-020-00248-8.
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Abstract Many things can go wrong on a journey. From minor disturbances like a track change to major problems like train cancellations, everything can happen. The broad availability of smartphones enables us to keep the traveler up-to-date with information relevant for the journey. This way, the traveler can react to changes as early as possible and make well-informed decisions. Naive approaches are too inefficient to monitor a large number of journeys in real-time. This paper presents an efficient way to monitor millions of journeys in parallel. In our approach, the selection of change notices to be communicated to a traveler may be flexibly adapted to the travelers individual needs.
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ALBRECHT, AMIE, PHIL HOWLETT, and PETER PUDNEY. "THE COST–TIME CURVE FOR AN OPTIMAL TRAIN JOURNEY ON LEVEL TRACK." ANZIAM Journal 58, no. 1 (July 2016): 10–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1446181116000092.
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In this paper, we show that the cost of an optimal train journey on level track over a fixed distance is a strictly decreasing and strictly convex function of journey time. The precise structure of the cost–time curves for individual trains is an important consideration in the design of energy-efficient timetables on complex rail networks. The development of optimal timetables for busy metropolitan lines can be considered as a two-stage process. The first stage seeks to find optimal transit times for each individual journey segment subject to the usual trip-time, dwell-time, headway and connection constraints in such a way that the total energy consumption over all proposed journeys is minimized. The second stage adjusts the arrival and departure times for each journey while preserving the individual segment times and the overall journey times, in order to best synchronize the collective movement of trains through the network and thereby maximize recovery of energy from regenerative braking. The precise nature of the cost–time curve is a critical component in the first stage of the optimization.
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Wang, Pu, and Qing-peng Zhang. "Train delay analysis and prediction based on big data fusion." Transportation Safety and Environment 1, no. 1 (February 4, 2019): 79–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/tse/tdy001.
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Abstract Despite the fact that punctuality is an advantage of rail travel compared with other long-distance transport, train delays often occur. For this study, a three-month dataset of weather, train delay and train schedule records was collected and analysed in order to understand the patterns of train delays and to predict train delay time. We found that in severe weather train delays are determined mainly by the type of bad weather, while in ordinary weather the delays are determined mainly by the historical delay time and delay frequency of trains. Identifying the factors closely correlated with train delays, we developed a machine-learning model to predict the delay time of each train at each station. The prediction model is useful not only for passengers wishing to plan their journeys more reliably, but also for railway operators developing more efficient train schedules and more reasonable pricing plans.
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Vardy, A. E. "Aerodynamic Drag on Trains in Tunnels Part 1: Synthesis and Definitions." Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part F: Journal of Rail and Rapid Transit 210, no. 1 (January 1996): 29–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.1243/pime_proc_1996_210_324_02.
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Aerodynamic drag on trains in tunnels includes friction drag and pressure drag, which are respectively the algebraic sums of the longitudinal components of all shear and normal forces on the train surfaces. The first of these is broadly similar to its counterpart in the open. The second is shown to include two effects that are usually negligible in the open. It is shown that the overall drag force must be regarded as the sum of individual components, each of which behaves differently from the others. The components can be represented by non-dimensional coefficients whose numerical values are nearly constant for a wide range of train journeys. In contrast, the overall drag coefficient is shown to vary significantly, even during any particular journey. The principal causes of aerodynamic drag in tunnels are also the principal causes of pressure waves that give rise to potential aural discomfort for passengers. It is argued that a common method of analysis is appropriate for the prediction of both of these effects. Ill-defined train areas are shown to be a potentially serious source of confusion in the estimation and interpretation of drag coefficients. The relevant train area is shown to be its aerodynamic area, the definition of which is explained.
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Knees, Peter, Tim Pohle, and Gerhard Widmer. "Sound/tracks: artistic real-time sonification of train journeys." Journal on Multimodal User Interfaces 6, no. 1-2 (January 24, 2012): 87–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12193-011-0089-x.
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Bonner, Withold. "Von Utopie zu Dystopie. Eisenbahnreisen in der Sowjetunion in Texten aus der DDR." Zeitschrift für interkulturelle Germanistik 7, no. 2 (July 1, 2016): 55–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.14361/zig-2016-0206.
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Abstract Train journeys to the USSR were a popular topic in GDR literature. This article explores the images of the Soviet Union, of its inhabitants and of the travellers themselves in texts by GDR authors written and published between 1962 and 2010. In these texts the train becomes an important symbol for what the authors see on their journey. This also includes what remains hidden from them and, in particular, how they understand what they are seeing and what not. The train therefore turns into a symbolic transit space, a heterotopia capable of juxtaposing several spaces - that are in themselves incompatible - in a single real place (Foucault). The train, its engine, windows and compartments in the texts discussed encompass surprisingly different perceptions of the Soviet Union, ranging from those informed by a strong faith in the imminent implementation of the socialist utopia to those informed by the perception of a Stalinist dystopia - and the ongoing repression of this insight on the part of the authors.
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Kiciński, Marcin, Dariusz Przybylski, and Agnieszka Merkisz-Guranowska. "The evaluation of variants arrival of the employees to work – the case study of 31st Tactical Air Force Bas." AUTOBUSY – Technika, Eksploatacja, Systemy Transportowe 19, no. 12 (December 31, 2018): 1085–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.24136/atest.2018.555.
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Paper presents an example of using a multi-criterial method of decision support (AHP) to choose a route variant different types of individual and collective transport (car, bus, train and tram). Authors analyzed 2 different journeys from two cities: Poznan and Gniezno to 31st Tactical Air Force Base in Poznan (Krzesiny). Compilation of variants was evaluated by group of criteria: time and cost of a journey, accessibility and number of transfers. A model of preferences was adopted that decision about a journey take two several persons (stakeholders) – professional soldiers.
Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Train journeys"
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Kelly, Lisa K. "Thermal comfort on train journeys." Thesis, Loughborough University, 2011. https://dspace.lboro.ac.uk/2134/8445.
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This thesis presents a body of work conducted to determine thermal comfort on train journeys. Relatively little research has been conducted on trains in comparison with the vast body of work conducted within building environments. This thesis aimed to expand our knowledge of rail passenger thermal comfort throughout the journey; platform to destination. The train journey was separated into its component parts and analysed by conducting both laboratory and field experiments that either simulated or measured aspects of a train journey. Laboratory experiment 1 examined appropriate methods of data collection during train journeys. Participants (9 males and 9 females) were exposed to a simulated train environment three times and used a different data collection method on each occasion; a paper-based method, a voice recorder or a Personal Digital Assistant (PDA). Results concluded that the three methods can be used interchangeably when recording thermal comfort data. Participants preferred the PDA over the other two methods because they felt it afforded them a level of privacy in addition to blending in with other rail passengers using similar technologies. The second laboratory experiment measured thermal comfort following a change of environment. Participants (12 males and 12 females) were exposed to three environmental conditions (warm, neutral and slightly cool) in a thermal chamber on three separate occasions. The exposure lasted 30 minutes, after which, participants entered a new environment that was the same on each occasion (slightly cool). Results showed that overshoots in sensation (beyond those predicted by the Predicted Mean Vote thermal comfort index PMV) are observed following downward steps (warmer to cooler) in environmental conditions. No overshoots were observed following the upward step (cooler to warmer) in environment, with sensations immediately reflecting the predicted steady-state values. Laboratory experiment 3 (22 males and 26 females) expanded the research conducted in laboratory experiment 2 by exposing participants to greater magnitudes of environmental change. In addition, sensation was measured after this change until steady-state was reached. Participants were exposed to four environmental conditions (cool to warm to neutral to cool or cool to cold to warm to cool) consecutively over a 2 hour period with 30 minutes spent in each location. Results demonstrated similar effects to those observed during laboratory experiment 2 with overshoots observed following downward steps in environmental conditions and none observed in the opposite direction. Sensations demonstrating overshoots gradually increased until steady-state was achieved after approximately 25 minutes. Field experiment 1 (12 males and 32 females) measured thermal comfort while boarding trains. Participants were taken on a short train journey and recorded sensations whilst on the platform and during boarding. Results showed that overshoots may also be observed following step up and step down in environments. It is hypothesised that change in air velocity is influential in this effect. Thermal comfort throughout a train journey was measured in field experiment 2. Participants (16 males and 16 females) reported on thermal comfort on the platform, during boarding and throughout a return train journey from Loughborough to London St Pancras. Results also demonstrated overshoots following upward transients indicating that there are factors in the field that do not occur in laboratory conditions. Subjective parameters reach steady-state after approximately 20 minutes and PMV accurately predicted sensations during the journey. Again, air velocities may have interacted with other variables resulting in the overshoots following upward steps in environmental conditions. Laboratory experiments 2 and 3 resulted in the creation of a model predicting sensation following a change of environment, PMVTRANS. When the model was compared with the field data, it could not accurately predict sensations observed during transients. It also could not predict the sensation overshoots observed following upward transients. A new model is now proposed, NEW PMVTRANS. This model shows greater correlation with actual sensation than PMV; however it does require further validation from field data. Research has shown that PMV is an accurate estimator of sensation within a train carriage and should be used by train designers to optimise the environmental conditions for passengers.
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Keyhani, Mohammad Hossein [Verfasser], Karsten [Akademischer Betreuer] Weihe, and Oetting [Akademischer Betreuer] Andreas. "Computing Highly Reliable Train Journeys / Mohammad Hossein Keyhani ; Karsten Weihe, Oetting Andreas." Darmstadt : Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Darmstadt, 2017. http://d-nb.info/1132774756/34.
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Price, Ann Mereryd. "Alienation, trains and the journey of life in four modern Japanese novels." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 1987. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/26903.
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This thesis examines the theme of alienation along with the train motif in the life journeys of the protagonists in four modern Japanese novels. Each chapter is devoted to an individual novel and explores its hero's feelings of socio-psychological estrangement on personal and interpersonal levels as well as the role of the train journey which serves to arouse, create or alleviate such feelings.
Chapter One deals with Sanshiro (Sanshiro. 1908) by Natsume Soseki and follows the hero on his long train journey from backward Kyushu to progressive Tokyo. The people he meets on the train foreshadow the feelings of uneasiness and estrangement he will encounter in the capital. For Sanshiro, the noisy, crowded streetcars initially represent the "real world," constantly reminding him of his alienation from it. Once over his culture shock the hero's sense of not belonging shifts to his relationships with his friends. Gradually he begins to feel more comfortable with himself and the world around him.
Chapter Two examines A Dark Night's Passing (An'ya Koro, 1921-37) by Shiga Naoya. In his search to resolve feelings of unacceptability arising from his childhood experiences, Kensaku takes a series of journeys, many by train, "backward" in time. The train thus serves as an agent which can transcend the barriers of both time and space, separating or reuniting people and creating or breaking down distances between places. It can arouse feelings of happiness, excitement, sadness or loneliness in its passengers or simply provide him with a place to relax and dream about a brighter future.
Chapter Three focuses on Snow Country (Yukiguni. 1934-1947) by Kawabata Yasunari. Shimamura's purpose in visiting the snow country is two-fold -- he both desires to escape from and needs to confront the reality of the wasted effort in his life and resulting sense of alienation from humanity. The train complies. As it brings him into this region of Japan it completely loses any connection with reality, creating a void in which weirdly beautiful apparitions float up before our hero's very eyes. Once in this fantasy land our hero is taught to see his own coldness and how to become more human by two beautiful women. It is then left up to Shimamura to put what he has learned into action when he returns to Tokyo by the train which, heading away from the snow country, takes on very real qualities.
The final chapter examines The Temple of the Golden Pavilion (Kinkakuii. 1956) by Mishima Yukio. This novel deals with Mizoguchi, a most frightening character whose mixed-up views of both himself and the world are but a thin disguise for insanity. The hero suffers terribly from the resulting feelings of not belonging as well as a great inferiority complex. The situation is complicated by his strange love-hate relationship with the Golden Temple to which he attributes human qualities. The train in this novel serves as the symbolic vehicle which transports the hero back and forth between the region of his birth and what he calls "the station of death" where he will eventually destroy both the temple and the hated half of his personality.
In the conclusion the relevance of alienation, trains and the journey of life in modern Japanese literature are discussed.Arts, Faculty of
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Lohry, Jerome L. "The view from here the 1841 Bidwell-Bartleson Party's perception of the California emigrant trail /." abstract and full text PDF (free order & download UNR users only), 2007. http://0-gateway.proquest.com.innopac.library.unr.edu/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:1442851.
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Kuoraite, Dalia. "Towards selfhood : memory, subjectivity and the Trans-Siberian railway journey." Thesis, University of Exeter, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10871/29077.
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This thesis is an autoethnography based on a two week Trans-Siberian railway journey from Moscow to Vladivostok in October 2011. It explores the role of memory in our spatial surroundings, the effect remembering has on the way we move through and interpret the present and ourselves. In the chapters about community, rhythms, memory/imagination, and landscape the journey becomes a backbone for the personal narratives and the stories of others, which intertwining unveil the complex relationship between the self and the world, the present and the absent, and the imagined. Thesis explores the inevitable mobility of the mind, which sees us losing the ability to stay fastened to physical spaces, images and our own being, and opening the possibility to travel in time, space and memory. The physical landscape, landscape of Siberia gradually becomes almost invisible, disappears and re-emerges as a series of personal images and stories, feelings and dreams, suggesting that even moving through the vastest landscapes in the world we are always travelling inward, towards an understanding of ourselves and the world around us.
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Bar-Yitzhak, Rachel. "Stillborn to reborn : a dramatherapy journey from post trauma to recovery." Thesis, Anglia Ruskin University, 2010. http://arro.anglia.ac.uk/276334/.
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This research explored the role of extra-therapeutic variables contributing to recovery from chronic Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). Within the context of dramatherapy treatment, those variables were identified as three crucial concepts: 'Client, Post Traumatic' (C.PT), ‘Imaginary Existence Zone’ (IEZ) and 'Time Adjusted Encounters' (TAE). Together they created the notion of a Curative Zone (CZ). Establishing and understanding the significance of these new concepts helped the researcher to explain the PTSD recuperation phenomenon. The research was conducted within the qualitative–naturalistic paradigm, and based on real-life dramatherapeutic occurrences. The choice of an inductive case study approach and design was possible due to the fact that a single individual was willing to participate in this research as an active partner by contributing her reflections on the therapy, four years after its termination. Iris, the client and the collaborating respondent was a childless woman aged 43, who suffered from chronic PTSD for three years following stillbirth of her baby daughter and the repetitive failure of fertility treatments. The findings reveal a direct linkage between: the neurological system and its activation, and the cardinal role of the C.PT during TAE, working through prolonged engagements in the IEZ facilitated by dramatherapy. These processes gradually integrated and synthesized to create the CZ, a development which explains this instance of recovery from chronic PTSD. The conclusions are: the chronic PTSD recovery was a holistic body-mind cure phenomenon. It resulted from the interaction between the extra-therapeutic variables, combined with the curative characteristics of the dramatherapeutic nonverbal imaginative language and activities, which compounded a new synergetic constellation. The research findings contribute to the theory and practice of dramatherapy as a discipline; additionally, the model developed by this research can be potentially applied as an appropriate treatment of PTSD. These conclusions challenge valid psychotherapy knowledge regarding effective therapeutic factors that contribute to successful outcomes. However, in this case they verified credible, dependable and transferable attributes features this naturalistic research. Therefore, they make a contribution to knowledge in the dramatherapy field.
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Altonen, Brian Lee. "Asiatic cholera and dysentery on the Oregon Trail : a historical medical geography study." PDXScholar, 2000. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/4305.
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Two disease regions existed on the Oregon Trail. Asiatic cholera impacted the Platte River flood plain from 1849 to 1852. Dysentery developed two endemic foci due to the decay of buffalo carcasses in eastern and middle Nebraska between 1844 and 1848, but later developed a much larger endemic region west of this Great Plains due to the infection of livestock carcasses by opportunistic bacteria.
This study demonstrates that whereas Asiatic cholera diffusion along the Trail was defined primarily by human population features, topography, and regional climate along the Platte River flood plain, the distribution of opportunistic dysentery along the Trail was defined primarily by human and animal fitness in relation to local topography features. By utilizing a geographic interpretation of disease spread, the Asiatic cholera epidemic caused by Vibrio cholerae could be distinguished from the dysentery epidemic caused by one or more species of Salmonella or Campylobacter. In addition, this study also clarifies an important discrepancy popular to the Oregon Trail history literature. "Mountain fever," a disease typically associated with Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever, was demonstrated to be cases of fever induced by the same bacteria responsible for opportunistic dysentery.
In addition, several important geographic methods of disease interpretations were used for this study. By relating the epidemiological transition model of disease patterns to the early twentieth century sequent occupance models described in numerous geography journals, a spatially- and temporally-oriented disease model was produced applicable to reviews of disease history, a method of analysis which has important applications to current studies of disease patterns in rapidly changing rural and urban population settings.
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Keyhani, Mohammad Hossein. "Computing Highly Reliable Train Journeys." Phd thesis, 2017. https://tuprints.ulb.tu-darmstadt.de/6227/1/Keyhani_Dissertation_Final.pdf.
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Millions of people travel daily by public transport in order to reach their destinations. Public transport is often an attractive alternative to traveling by other means such as cars. In daily operation, however, unfortunate delays frequently arise, disrupting the scheduled departure and arrival times of the trains. Even slight delays can result in connection breaks wherein passengers miss their connecting trains because they arrive too late for planned transfers. A considerable number of passengers are consequently faced by delays and their repercussions every day.
This work focuses on the computation of reliable journeys. First, we demonstrate an accurate method of assessing the reliability of train connections. For the assessment of a train connection, we compute the probability of passengers reaching their destinations when taking the train connection; in other words, the probability of the train connection not breaking because of delays. Our method considers the timetable, interdependencies between trains, current delays in the railway network, and stochastic prognoses for the travel times of the trains. Regarding the latter, we use probability distributions which are computed based on tangible historical delay data. The interdependencies between the trains are caused by delay managements; trains wait for the passengers of other delayed trains. Our computational study---which is based on real data---reveals that our reliability assessments are realistic and accurate.
We then address a fundamental problem in planning journeys: arrive in time by train at the destination with a high probability. In addition, to save time, passengers usually desire to commence a journey as late as possible. We present an efficient solution to the described problem. We compute highly reliable train journeys by which the destination can be reached with a high probability of being on time even in case of delays. Such a train journey includes a train connection along with alternative continuations to the destination. The latter are used in case of connection breaks caused by delays. Our optimal approach computes the best choice in enabling the continuance of the journey for each situation that may occur when traveling. Along all possible continuations, the best choice is the continuation with the highest probability of being on time at the destination. The evaluations presented illustrate that the train journeys computed are highly reliable and attractive to passengers even in terms of both travel time and convenience.
State-of-the-art routing systems provide the search for intermodal, door-to-door connections. Beside public transport, passengers use modes of transport such as taxis, car sharing, bike sharing, and individual cars. We extend our method of assessing the reliability of train connections to intermodal connections. Moreover, we discuss approaches to the computation of reliable intermodal connections.
Last, we address the problem of connection breaks late at night; such a situation is frustrating for passengers, particularly if the destination cannot be reached by public transport prior to the end of operations. In such situations, railway companies must offer compensation to ensure the rights of passengers are upheld. We propose a solution to the problem of finding connections to the destination by taking into account the options of taxi rides or overnight stays in hotels. The main objectives are the satisfaction of passengers and cost reductions for the railway company.
The methods and algorithms presented in this work are designed for real, large train networks such as in Germany with more than a million departure and arrival events per day. We use a fully realistic model that represents the timetable and relevant factors which influence train delays. Thus, we compute realistic train journeys which can be used by passengers in order to reach their destinations. Our computational studies are based on real data from the German railway company, Deutsche Bahn AG. The evaluations demonstrate that our approaches deliver promising results, are practicable, and can be integrated into timetable information systems in order to answer large amounts of passenger queries per day.
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Silva, António Maria Furtado Ferreira Pestana da. "The presidential train: a luxury journey through the Douro valley in Portugal." Master's thesis, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10362/38771.
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Luxury tourism is gaining importance in today’s world and, despite Portugal is still regarded
as a mass tourism destination, it begins to take important steps in this segment of high
potential. After understanding how this economic activity is evolving in Portugal (especially
Porto and Douro Region), an empirical study was conceived to assess on the operations and
financials of The Presidential, a unique luxury journey, and its competitive advantage in the
market. Approaches were performed to a significant sample of tourists and people involved
which helped collecting relevant recommendations to improve the tour aboard the
Portuguese Presidential Train.
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Huang, Ju Chio, and 黃茹巧. "IMPRINT ＂VOYAGER＂—A JOURNEY TOWARDS THE TRAIL OF LIFE." Thesis, 2019. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/cb6cj9.
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This thesis will focus on the process of production and the courses throughout the execution of the graduating performance. “Voyager.” The main focus of discussion is the author’s execution of said piece: the analysis of the structure and character within the performance. Through the interpretation process of roles, multiple identities of the author were created to pick apart administrative work matters and look back at the difficulties as well as challenges the author had faced. The thesis is divided into five chapters: Introduction, Literature Discussion, Process of Production, Character Analysis, and Reflection. The first chapter discusses the authors history with dance and how it is utilized as the core of creating this piece. The second chapter is the section of literature discussion. Highlighting the author's utilization of literary resources, exploring the history of contemporary dance, the guidance of dance image, and the interpretation of performing methods. In the third chapter Process of Production, the author introduces the choreographer's experience as well as an introduction to this production. The procedure of this creation is divided into three parts: the beginning, the middle, and the end. The fourth chapter contains the author’s exploration upon character analysis. The author retraces the steps upon creating the performance as well as the hardships and lessons picked up along the way. Lastly, the fifth chapter closes the thesis with the author’s reflection upon the process of producing the said piece.
Books on the topic "Train journeys"
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Turner, Francia. Journeys: Train journeys through British landscapes. Newton Abbot: David & Charles, 1989.
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Portway, Christopher. The world commuter: Great journeys by train. Chichester: Summersdale, 2001.
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Journeys by excursion train from East Lancashire. Stockport: Foxline Publishing, 1997.
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ill, Mathis Carol, ed. Grandmother's bell and the wagon train, 1849. Camino, CA: Barsotti Pub., 1996.
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Gunne, Sorcha. "Train Journeys and Border Lines." In Space, Place, and Gendered Violence in South African Writing, 141–83. New York: Palgrave Macmillan US, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9781137442680_4.
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Vollenwyder, Beat, Esther Buchmüller, Christian Trachsel, Klaus Opwis, and Florian Brühlmann. "My Train Talks to Me: Participatory Design of a Mobile App for Travellers with Visual Impairments." In Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 10–18. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-58796-3_2.
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AbstractTravellers with visual impairments may face substantial information gaps on their journeys by public transport. For instance, information displayed in trains, as well as on departure boards in train stations and on platforms, are often not available in acoustic or tactile form. Digital technologies, such as smartphones or smartwatches, can provide an alternative means of access. However, these alternatives do not guarantee that the user experience is comparable in value, quality and efficiency. The present case study details a participatory design process, where travellers with visual impairments co-designed a mobile app. The goal was to tackle information gaps on journeys by public transport and to learn how participatory design can facilitate the provision of comparable experiences for users with disabilities. Travellers with visual impairments were involved in a collaborative process in all project phases, including problem identification, technical feasibility, proof of concept, design and development. Participatory design contributed to a thorough understanding of the user perspective and allowed the app to be optimised for the needs of travellers with visual impairments. Furthermore, co-design proved to be an effective method for fostering awareness and knowledge about digital accessibility at all organisational levels.
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Haran, Barnaby. "Epilogue: red train journeys." In Watching the red dawn, 174–89. Manchester University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.7228/manchester/9780719097225.003.0006.
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Storey, Mark. "Lines of Time, Sight, and Capital: Train Journeys." In Rural Fictions, Urban Realities, 25–53. Oxford University Press, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199893188.003.0002.
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Raychaudhuri, Anindya. "“All trains stop there”." In Narrating South Asian Partition, 103–26. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190249748.003.0006.
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This chapter focuses on what is probably the most popular icon of partition narratives—that of refugee trains being attacked and turned into “death trains.” There is hardly a single partition narrative in any genre that does not mention trains in some form or another. This chapter charts the ways in which train journeys have been represented in literature, cinema, and oral history testimonies in an attempt to explain the reason for this predominance. If we see partition as a violent re-inscribing of social hierarchies, then the icon of the “death train” becomes a space within which individual and collective agency can be expressed, as the dynamic between state and non-state forces is played out in this microcosm of the nation.
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Mazdon, Lucy. "Brief Encounters: The Railway Station on Film." In Journeys on Screen, 36–49. Edinburgh University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474421836.003.0003.
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This chapter examines the cinematic representation of the railway station, examining the different ways in which the space and iconography of the station have been used in film to represent cultural integration, transformation and/or friction. The station is both physical space and symbol or metaphor for cultural encounter of all kinds: encounter engendered by travel and tourism, conflict and displacement, memory and identity. One of the very earliest moving pictures, the Lumière brothers’ Arrivée d’un train à la gare de La Ciotat (France, 1896), puts a station at its heart reminding us of the shared origins of both cinema and the modern station in the nineteenth century and presaging the countless filmic representations of the station which would ensue. Via close analysis of David Lean’s seminal ‘station’ film, Brief Encounter (1945) the chapter examines the reasons for this cinematic fascination with the railway station and examines this film’s particular representations of journeys, encounters and identities.
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Cenciarelli, Carlo. "The Sense of an Ending: Music, Time and Romance in Before Sunrise." In Journeys on Screen, 167–82. Edinburgh University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474421836.003.0011.
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Right from the start, Before Sunrise presents us with the problem of its ending. The film narrates the on-the-road romance of Jesse and Celine, who meet on a train through central Europe, fall for each other, and decide to spend a day and night together in Vienna before continuing their respective journeys, never to see each other again. In a move that is typical of indie cinema, the two protagonists trade the idea of a ‘happily ever after’ with the possibility of experiencing a moment together. And yet, for this same reason, their time together is inseparable from the feeling of the approaching goodbye, which threatens their very ability to experience the moment. My chapter explores how Before Sunrise draws on music to find a solution to this conundrum. I show that, as we approach the temporal deadline of the title, Bach’s music is used to mobilise a set of complementary eschatological frameworks that are meant both to freeze and extend the time in Vienna. More broadly, I suggest that the film provides a model of cinema’s use of music to make sense of endings and of the time-bound nature of the cinematic experience.
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"Front Matter." In The Train Journey, i—iv. Berghahn Books, 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt9qd53n.1.
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"Camp Arrivals:." In The Train Journey, 169–202. Berghahn Books, 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt9qd53n.10.
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"Conclusion:." In The Train Journey, 203–15. Berghahn Books, 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt9qd53n.11.
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Hassani, Marwan, and Stefan Habets. "Predicting Next Touch Point In A Customer Journey: A Use Case In Telecommunication." In 35th ECMS International Conference on Modelling and Simulation. ECMS, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.7148/2021-0048.
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Customer journey analysis is rapidly increasing in popularity, as it is essential for companies to understand how their customers think and behave. Recent studies investigate how customers traverse their journeys and how they can be improved for the future. However, those researches only focus on improving the process for future customers by analyzing the historical data. This research focuses on helping the current customer immediately, by analyzing if it is possible to predict what the customer will do next and accordingly take proactive steps. We propose a model to predict the customer's next contact type (touch point). At first we will analyze the customer journey data by applying process mining techniques. We will use these insights then together with the historical data of accumulated customer journeys to train several classifiers. The winning of those classifiers, namely XGBoost, is used to perform a prediction on a customer's journey while the journey is still active. We show on three different real datasets coming from interactions between a telecommunication company and its customers that we always beat a baseline classifier thanks to our thorough pre-processing of the data.
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Bandis, Eleftherios, Nikolaos Polatidis, Maria Diapouli, and Stelios Kapetanakis. "Data Stream Harmonization For Heterogeneous Workflows." In 35th ECMS International Conference on Modelling and Simulation. ECMS, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.7148/2021-0042.
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Transport infrastructure relies heavily on extended multi sensor networks and data streams to support its advanced real time monitoring and decision making. All relevant stakeholders are highly concerned on how travel patterns, infrastructure capacity and other internal / external factors (such as weather) affect, deteriorate or improve performance. Usually new network infrastructure can be remarkably expensive to build thus the focus is constantly in improving existing workflows, reduce overheads and enforce lean processes. We propose suitable graph-based workflow monitoring methods for developing efficient performance measures for the rail industry using extensive business process workflow pattern analysis based on Case-based Reasoning (CBR) combined with standard Data Mining methods. The approach focuses on both data preparation, cleaning and workflow integration of real network data. Preliminary results of this work are promising since workflow integration seems efficient against data complexity and domain peculiarities as well as scale on demand whilst demonstrating efficient accuracy. A number of modelling experiments are presented, that show that the approach proposed here can provide a sound basis for the effective and useful analysis of operational sensor data from train Journeys.
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Salvador Zuriaga, Pablo, Carla García Román, Juan Diego Pineda Jaramillo, and Ricardo Insa Franco. "The use of driving simulators for enhancing train driver’s performance in terms of energy consumption." In CIT2016. Congreso de Ingeniería del Transporte. Valencia: Universitat Politècnica València, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.4995/cit2016.2016.4236.
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This paper presents a driving simulator to be used by train drivers for training their driving skills in terms of energy-efficiency. In railway operations, previous experiences have shown differences in energy consumption up to 20 % among train drivers for the same journey in similar operational conditions. This shows great saving potentials in both economic and environmental terms. For this reason, railway companies wishing to become more efficient must encourage their train drivers to balance the energy consumption towards the minimum threshold. In this sense, driving simulators are a good complement for training courses on energy-saving best practices given to train drivers, where they can put into practice the learned contents. The developed driving simulator consists in an Excel spreadsheet including an accurate energy consumption model, which was previously developed from real measurements on different train services. The fact of being an Excel spreadsheet provides a familiar interface to train drivers, making easier its use, and becomes an affordable tool for small and medium size freight private railway companies. Furthermore, the fact of being a non-real-time simulation makes possible to perform a journey of several hours in a few minutes, thus being able to test different driving strategies for the same train journey in a short time period. In this paper, the driving simulator was applied to the Valencia-Cuenca-Aranjuez railway line operated by Renfe Operadora with Diesel Multiple Units. The results are given in terms of fuel consumption, costs of fuel and CO2 emissions and enable train drivers to find by themselves the most efficient way to drive the train between two stations. Finally, this driving simulator may serve as the basis for training and evaluating train drivers in order to set up a bonus/penalty policy for rewarding the most efficient train drivers and achieve an overall energy consumption reduction.DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.4995/CIT2016.2016.4236
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Zhang, Zixuan, Yuan Cao, Shuai Su, and Di Wang. "Optimal driving strategy for a train journey with considering multiple time constrains." In 2020 IEEE 23rd International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSC). IEEE, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/itsc45102.2020.9294391.
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Lukaszewicz, P. "Impact of train model variables on simulated energy usage and journey time." In COMPRAIL 2006. Southampton, UK: WIT Press, 2006. http://dx.doi.org/10.2495/cr060711.
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Zakri, Keysha Wellviestu, Anugrah Sabdono Sudarsono, Joko Sarwono, Sentagi Sesotya Utami, Nurul Hidayah, and Nida Nurmadi Hamdani. "Noise comparison of Argo Parahyangan train in different class and journey time." In ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGY IN ENGINEERING PHYSICS. Author(s), 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.5095348.
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Santos, Auteliano A., Matheus V. Lopes, Vanessa Gonçalves, Jony J. Eckert, and Thiago S. Martins. "Vibration Energy Harvesting to Power Ultrasonic Sensors in Heavy Haul Railway Cars." In ASME 2018 International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/imece2018-87836.
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Long heavy-haul trains are now a reality, especially for ore transportation. In some railways, compositions of up to 330 wagons are in service, requiring several locomotives. Trains like that travel long distances, sometimes through cities or in uninhabited regions. They are driven by just one driver which must keep the whole train working safely on the track. The wagons don’t have any source of electrical energy to power sensors and to transmit their signals to the locomotive; nor wireless communication. In fact, in some of these railways, there is no internet along with the track out of the cities. One important indicator of the safety of the train is the force between the wagons during the trip, through the shunting. Using strain gauges to measure these forces is a possible solution and ultrasonic stress sensors (UST) is a suitable alternative. UST with Lcr waves requires a low amount of energy and can be employed in rusty and dirty places. However, they also need an energy source. Wind and solar solutions are not always adequate because, unfortunately, there are places where these components have economic value and they can be stolen. A possible source of energy to power the USTs could be the Vibration Energy Harvester (VEH). These simple and not expensive systems can be built in small packs, giving the energy to measure the forces and transmit the data to the locomotive or designated sites along the track. This work aims to evaluate the possibility of using VEH to power USTs to measure the forces between the wagons during the journey. Knowing that the oscillation in the shunting has a very low frequency, the work intent to optimize a multi-beam VEH to be able to capture the highest amount of energy possible, in a very small arrangement, using genetic algorithm. The result shows that VEH is an adequate alternative to power autonomous UST sensors.
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Hun Lee, Linfeng Xu, and Kwang W. Oh. "A journey of trains of droplets in droplet-based microfluidic devices." In 2014 36th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC). IEEE, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/embc.2014.6943706.
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Berthot, Alexis, Vincent Rey, and Philippe Fraunie. "Modélisation de l'évolution à long-terme du trait de côte." In Journées Nationales Génie Côtier - Génie Civil. Editions Paralia, 2000. http://dx.doi.org/10.5150/jngcgc.2000.015-b.
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LAFON, Virginie, Anaïs HOAREAU, Cyril MALLET, and Jean-François DESPRATS. "Suivi du trait de côte en Aquitaine par imagerie Formosat-2." In Journées Nationales Génie Côtier - Génie Civil. Editions Paralia, 2010. http://dx.doi.org/10.5150/jngcgc.2010.058-l.
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