Track critical locations with respect to the railway vehicle safety are the passages through the turnouts. The purpose of this investigation is to evaluate the safety of a railway vehicle crossing a turnout. In this study, ...

The motivation for this research is to make a comparison between dynamic results of a free railway wheelset derailment and safety limits. For this purpose, a numerical simulation of a wheelset derailment submitted to ...

The railway transportation played an important role in the setting of the spacing and cultural dynamics, because it brought new values and new social practices to the place where it was present, defining innumerous railway ...

This paper reports on what appears to be the first attempt to map the perceived holistic dynamics at work in contemporary Brazilian railway development. The published perspectives of recognized experts in the Brazilian ...

The running safety and passenger comfort levels in a vehicle are tightly related to the technical state of the suspension elements. The technical state of the suspension depends of the service life time as its components ...

The present work aims to understand the tourist potential through the forms of use and the dynamics of conservation and preservation of railway memory spaces in the city of Ijuí-RS. Show the history of the railway from ...

O estudo da dinâmica longitudinal ferroviária e metroviária é bastante relevante quando se fala em controle de operação, permitindo avaliar importantes fatores em um determinado trajeto, tais como: demanda de potência, ...

The conditions for the operation of railway systems are closely related to the increase of the commercial demand; as a consequence, the performance of the structural elements of railways changes. The present paper focuses ...