Impact Assessment of Rail Switch Location Design on Railway Network Resilience

In the upcoming years more train passengers are expected and with more trains on the tracks railway systems require greater resilience. Switches can play a major role during disruptions as they enable trains to be rerouted onto other tracks, allowing them to bypass the disruption but switches also facilitate overtaking, meet-pass operations at...

Managing disruptions in public transport from the passenger perspective: A study to assess and improve operational strategies for the benefit of passengers in rail-bound urban transport systems

Double graduation. Second faculty is: Technology, Policy and Management. Department: Transport, Infrastructure and Logistics. Disruptions in public transport, if not properly addressed, can have consequent impacts on passengers, but also on public transport operators, translating into revenue loss. Yet so far, both operators and researchers have...

Identification and cause isolation of Dutch rail dispatching system failure notifications

This research assesses if, and how, the disruption-management process of the Dutch rail infrastructure manager ProRail could be improved with better use of additional information. Through mapping the system elements in a fault tree (FT), the causes of a failure notification can be visualised. After identifying other effects for all failing...