Technology of Railway Transport

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Department of Smart Cities and Regions

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Research Methods of Causal Relationships of Demand Elasticity on Supply Planning in Railway Transport

Organization and management of technological processes in rail passenger and freight transport

Operational modelling of freight transport paths, stochastic control

ATO-system AVV, interaction of AVV and ETCS systems

Minimum headways safety distances, points of possible mutual danger, factors influencing the length of minimum headways,

Methods for determining track capacity, collision point theory, performance of the railway system as a whole

Methods of optimising capacity and throughput, relationship between capacity and quality of service

Timetable elements, UIC methodology, path´s heterogeneity

Arrangement of simple IPT- junctions

Timetable stability, critical section for determining stability, possible solutions in case of insufficient timetable stability

Methods for optimising operational processes in relation to infrastructure capacity

Methods of solving the interaction between traffic, infrastructure and means of transport

Operational management of railway traffic, optimisation methods, strategies and disposition objectives

Modelling of technological processes on available and proposed transport infrastructure

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