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On the strength of cooperation between UIC and the IEA, data provided by UIC members is included in the IEA Mobility Model. This has improved the quality of statistics on energy consumption and carbon emissions from the railways, strengthening the case for investment in rail and cleaner energy and transport policy.

The EU-funded project PROACTIVE, which is coordinated by the UIC Security Division, has published public awareness materials of relevance for railway security in the case of CBRNe (Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear and explosive) incidents. Based on a railway scenario, the materials describe the protective actions which members of the general public could take if such an event were to occur. The materials were co-created together between PROACTIVE consortium researchers, the public at large and CBRNe practitioners. As such, the PROACTIVE Pre-Incident Public Information Materials for CBRNe Incidents could be used by the railways to educate both the public and staff about this important topic, potentially reducing the impact of such incidents and even saving lives. As an open resource, they can be further adapted by railway stakeholders to better meet their local contexts.

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High-speed trains are developing at a rapid pace. The pandemic did not stop the expansion of the high-speed rail network, as the length of operational lines increased by more than 40% between 2020 and 2022, going from 44,000 km to around 59,000 km. Additionally, the number of countries using high-speed trains is on the rise with the development of further projects, which is demonstrated by construction work across the world, in Europe, Asia, Africa, North and South America, and in the Middle East.

At the beginning there is a compendium of novelties collected by academic literature as well as implemented or planned by railway operators. Then, it presents a complete set of recommendations, suggestions and opinions coming from different stakeholders through five qualitative studies. As a result, the actions and good practices proposed to improve railway attractiveness have been contrasted both from the demand and the service supply side.

Related to the state of the art, more than 50 papers including cases studies around the world have been consulted allowing to stablish five main thresholds on current railways attractiveness research:

This book promotes the use of mathematical optimization and operations research methods in rail transportation. The editors assembled thirteen contributions from leading scholars to present a unified voice, standardize terminology, and assess the state-of-the-art.

There are three main clusters of articles, corresponding to the classical stages of the planning process: strategic, tactical, and operational. These three clusters are further subdivided into five parts which correspond to the main phases of the railway network planning process: network assessment, capacity planning, timetabling, resource planning, and operational planning. Individual chapters cover:

Carlo Mannino is a Senior Scientist at SINTEF ICT in Oslo, Norway and Professor of Operations Research at the University of Oslo. He earned his Ph.D. in Operations Research at the University of Rome, La Sapienza and was awarded the 2014 INFORMS Best Paper Award, Telecommunications Section, as well as the 2009 EURO Excellence in Practice Award and 2014 AIRO best application award for his work in railroad optimization.

Markus Reuther is an expert in the development of integrated optimization software with many years of experience in tour planning and railroad planning at the Zuse Institute, Berlin. He has successfully graduated and promoted on novel algorithmic methods for solving complex application problems specializing in railway optimization at the Technical University of Berlin.

Bradshaw's was a series of railway timetables and travel guide books published by W.J. Adams and later Henry Blacklock, both of London. They are named after founder George Bradshaw, who produced his first timetable in October 1839. Although Bradshaw died in 1853, the range of titles bearing his name (and commonly referred to by that alone) continued to expand for the remainder of the 19th and early part of the 20th century, covering at various times Continental Europe, India, Australia and New Zealand, as well as parts of the Middle-East. They survived until May 1961, when the final monthly edition of the British guide was produced.[1][2][3] The British and Continental guides were referred to extensively by presenter Michael Portillo in his multiple television series.[a]

Bradshaw's name was already known as the publisher of Bradshaw's Maps of Inland Navigation, which detailed the canals of Lancashire and Yorkshire, when, on 19 October 1839, soon after the introduction of railways, his Manchester company published the world's first compilation of railway timetables. The cloth-bound book was entitled Bradshaw's Railway Time Tables and Assistant to Railway Travelling and cost sixpence. In 1840 the title was changed to Bradshaw's Railway Companion, and the price raised to one shilling.[4] A new volume was issued at occasional intervals and from time to time a supplement kept this up to date. The original Bradshaw publications were published before the limited introduction of standardised Railway time in November 1840, and its subsequent development into standard time. The accompanying map of all lines in operation (and some "in progress") in England and Wales, is cited as being the world's first national railway map.[5]

In December 1841, acting on a suggestion made by his London agent, William Jones Adams, Bradshaw reduced the price to the original sixpence, and began to issue the guides monthly under the title Bradshaw's Monthly Railway Guide. [4]Many railway companies were unhappy with Bradshaw's timetable, but Bradshaw was able to circumvent this by becoming a railway shareholder and by putting his case at company AGMs.[6] Soon the book, in the familiar yellow wrapper,[7] became synonymous with its publisher: for Victorians and Edwardians alike, a railway timetable was "a Bradshaw", no matter by which railway company it had been issued, or whether Bradshaw had been responsible for its production or not.

The eight-page edition of 1841 had grown to 32 pages by 1845 and to 946 pages by 1898 and now included maps, illustrations and descriptions of the main features and historic buildings of the towns served by the railways.[8] In April 1845, the issue number jumped from 40 to 141:[6] the publisher claimed this was an innocent mistake, although it has been speculated as a commercial ploy, where more advertising revenue could be generated by making it look longer-established than it really was. Whatever the reason for the change, the numbering continued from 141.

When in 1865, Punch praised Bradshaw's publications, it stated that "seldom has the gigantic intellect of man been employed upon a work of greater utility." At last, some order had been imposed on the chaos that had been created by some 150 rail companies whose tracks criss-crossed the country and whose largely uncoordinated network was rapidly expanding. Bradshaw minutely recorded all changes and became the standard manual for rail travel well into the 20th century.

Between the two world wars, the verb 'to Bradshaw' was a derogatory term used in the Royal Air Force to refer to pilots who could not navigate well, perhaps related to a perceived lack of ability shown by those who navigated by following railway lines.

When the railways were nationalised in 1948, five of the six British Railways Regions followed the companies' example by using Blacklock to produce their timetable books, but production was eventually moved to other publishers. This change must have reduced Blacklock's revenue substantially. Parts of Bradshaw's guide began to be reset in the newer British Railways style from 1955, but modernisation of the whole volume was never completed. By 1961 Bradshaw cost 12s 6d (62p), and a complete set of BR Regional timetables could be bought for 6s (30p).

In June 1847 the first number of Bradshaw's Continental Railway Guide was issued, giving the timetables of the Continental railways. It grew to over 1,000 pages, including timetables, guidebook and hotel directory. It was discontinued in 1914 at the outbreak of the First World War. Briefly resurrected in the interwar years, it saw its final edition in 1939. The 1913 edition was republished in September 2012.[12] A travel documentary series named Great Continental Railway Journeys has been made based on the 1913 edition.

Membership in AREMA demonstrates that you are a professional in your field, dedicated to improving your practical knowledge and interested in exchanging information with your peers in order to advance the railroad engineering industry.

AREMA supports those pursuing college level courses of study related to the engineering and/or technical aspects of the railway industry through student membership, scholarship opportunities and involvement in student chapters at many universities across the United States and Canada.

Transportation was a major problem facing early settlers in Texas. As late as 1850 the settled area of the state was largely confined to the river bottoms of East and South Texas and along the Gulf Coast. Although steamboat navigation was common on the lower stretches of a number of such rivers as the Rio Grande, Brazos, and Trinity, Texas rivers were not deep enough for dependable year-round transportation. Roads were either poor or nonexistent and virtually impassable during wet weather. Ox carts hauling three bales of cotton could only travel a few miles a day and the cost of wagon transport was twenty cents per ton mile. Many proposals to improve internal transportation were both considered and attempted during the period of the Republic of Texas and early statehood. These included river improvements, canals, and plank roads in addition to railroads. However, it was the railroads that made the development of Texas possible, and for many years railroad extension and economic growth paralleled each other. 17dc91bb1f