Sustainable Rail Transport

Description

These conference proceedings include a collection of articles presented at the RailExchange conference in October 2017 at Newcastle University, UK. They will be useful for researchers in developing countries looking for opportunities of knowledge exchange. The RailExchange project aimed to develop sustainable railway education in Thailand, via international partnerships and industry collaborations based around stakeholders' expertise and experiences. It involved staff exchange (academics and researchers) between Mahidol and Newcastle University for joint research and curriculum development and also organizing railway conferences and workshops in both Thailand and the UK. The papers published here focus on rail-related issues and present a perspective of a widely understood 'exchange' in academia and industry environments. 'Exchange' is perceived as rail knowledge exchange between partners, rail staff exchange between academia and/or industry, research exchange between teams, student-lecturer knowledge exchange, academia-industry collaboration, etc. In addition, more general rail-related papers are also included. Front Matter ....Pages i-xii Defect Detection of Railway Turnout Using 3D Scanning (Maryam Ebadi, Morteza Bagheri, Mohammad S. Lajevardi, Badria Haas)....Pages 1-18 Developing a Ride Comfort Monitoring System from Scratch: An Experience in a Suburban Railway (Jorge Ubirajara Pedreira Junior, Juliana Neves Chaves, Luís Augusto de Souza Santos)....Pages 19-36 Introducing Automated Obstacle Detection to British Level Crossings (Matthew Dent, Marin Marinov)....Pages 37-80 Impact of a “Missing Link” on Passenger’s Travel Time: A Case Study of Tao Poon Station (Waressara Weerawat, Taksaporn Thongboonpian, Anna Fraszczyk)....Pages 81-92 Modularisation as a Key Success Factor for Academia–Industry Collaboration (Frank Michelberger, Birgit Blauensteiner)....Pages 93-99 University High Education in Croatia: A Case Study of the Railway Engineering Programme (Borna Abramović, Denis Šipuš)....Pages 101-109 A State of the Art on Railway Simulation Modelling Software Packages and Their Application to Designing Baggage Transfer Services (Ho Ki Yeung, Marin Marinov)....Pages 111-125 Influence of Passenger Behaviour on Railway-Station Infrastructure (Bernhard Rüger)....Pages 127-160 Rail Education in Italy: The Successful Experience of Cooperation Between Academia and Industry at Sapienza (Gabriele Malavasi, Stefano Ricci, Luca Rizzetto)....Pages 161-179 Regional Railways Transport—Effectiveness of the Regional Railway Line (Anna Dolinayova, Jozef Danis, Lenka Cerna)....Pages 181-200 Multibody Computational Tool for the Dynamic Analysis of Vehicle–Track Interaction (R. E. Shaltout)....Pages 201-221 F3—Fast Frequent Fulfilment—Industry–Academic Collaboration (Phil Mortimer)....Pages 223-239 Exchange of Higher Education Teaching and Learning Practices Between UK and Thailand: A Case Study of RailExchange Courses (Anna Fraszczyk, Waressara Weerawat, Marin Marinov, Phumin Kirawanich)....Pages 241-256 Digital Railway: Trends and Innovative Approaches (Florin Codrut Nemtanu, Marin Marinov)....Pages 257-268 Mentoring for Career Development: Organisational Approaches to Engage and Retain Employees (Janene Piip)....Pages 269-287 Evaluation of a Rail-Orientated Researcher Links Workshop (Andrew Dawson, Laura Dacoreggio Volpato Braz, Birgit Blauensteiner, Cassiano Augusto Isler, Acires Dias, Yesid Asaff et al.)....Pages 289-306 Back Matter ....Pages 307-307