Computers in Railways XVIII

Section 1: Traffic safety, security and monitoring
Analysis of tram comfort using the UNE EN 12299:2010 standard and Sperling method (Wz); Publication analysis of concepts for train integrity monitoring systems; Study for the compatibility of both cybersecurity and functional safety standards for railway signalling applications; ATO over ETCS: A system analysis for freight trains


Section 2: Train and railways analysis
Construction of fault evolution maps for damage level assessment of railway bearings;
Study on the influence of the modelling strategy in the calculation of the worn profile of railway wheels; Influence of modified powertrain masses on the ride comfort of a
light rail vehicle; Computer simulation to predict the sliding wear of pearlitic rails in
contact between cast and forged railway wheels

Section 3: Operation of rail networks
Potentiality of rail networks: Integrated services on conventional and high-speed lines; Weather and train disruptions in Sweden, 2011–2019; Articulated train of deep well cars for high-speed container transport; Prediction of real-time train arrival times along the Swedish Southern Mainline


Section 4: Advanced train control
Specification and design of a modular and extensible architecture for testing moving block systems; Safe dual-frequency EGNSS receiver for railways: The TRENI project;
Development of a new level crossing control system utilizing commercial mobile network and GNSS

Section 5: Energy-efficient design
Verification of DC ground fault detector for the signal equipment room; Study for the introduction of digital communication using optical fibre cables between control rooms and switchyard; Sustainable development of freight transport using a faster and more eco-friendly mode

Section 6: Traffic modelling and simulation
Improving rail network simulations with discrete distributions in OnTime; ATO over ETCS: Model-based system and architecture analysis with ARCADIA and Event-B; Enhance railway digital map for SLAM: Feasibility study; TrainRuns.jl: An open-source tool for running time estimation