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  • The sensors-based artificial intelligence Train Control and Monitoring System (TCMS) for managing the railway transport fleet

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    - Pojazdy Szynowe - Year 2023

    Railways deliver a safe and sustainable form of transport and are typically pointed as one the safest form of transportation. Nevertheless, train accidents still happen, and when they happen, the consequences concern serious fatalities and injuries. Since every case is unique, the most frequent causes of train accidents are mechanical derailments, failures, as well as human errors and ignorance. In order to mitigate the risks posed...

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  • Waldemar Korłub dr inż.

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    Waldemar Korłub obtained an Eng. degree in 2011, MSc.Eng. degree in 2012 and PhD in Computer Science in 2017 granted by the Faculty of Electronics, Telecommunications and Informatics at Gdansk University of Technology. His research interests include: distributed systems mainly grid and cloud computing platforms, autonomous systems capable of self-optimization, self-management, self-healing and self-protection, artificial intelligence...

  • Organizacja ruchu pociągów w obrębie stacji a oszczędność energii

    W artykule przytoczono podstawowe zasady organizacji ruchu kolejowego. Wyodrębniono elementy sieci kolejowej oraz wskazano obszar stacji kolejowej jako najistotniejszy z punktu widzenia organi-zacji ruchu dla celów zmniejszenia zużycia energii trakcyjnej z uwzględnieniem rekuperowanej ener-gii. W dalszej części odwołano się do spotykanych w literaturze rozwiązań sterowania czasem posto-ju na stacji oraz sterowania czasem jazdy...

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  • Andrzej Chybicki dr inż.

    A graduate of the Faculty of Electronics, Telecommunications and Informatics at the Gdańsk University of Technology, PhD in technical sciences in the field of IT specializing in distributed data processing in IT . Aimed at exploiting the achievements and knowledge in the field of industrial research. He cooperated with a number of companies including OpeGieka Elbląg, Reson Inc., Powel Sp. z o. o., Wasat, Better Solutions, the European...

  • Piotr Grudowski dr hab. inż.

    Professor Dr hab. Eng. Piotr Grudowski heads the Department of Quality and Commodity Management at the Faculty of Management and Economics of Gdansk University of Technology. In the years 1987-2009 he worked at the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering of the Gdansk University of Technology, where he obtained a doctoral degree in technical sciences in the discipline of construction and operation of machines and he headed the Department...

  • Geokompozyty drenażowe w odwodnieniach drogowych i kolejowych

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    Zagadnienie zagospodarowania wód opadowych i gruntowych w rejonie konstrukcji drogowych i kolejowych stanowi istotny element bezpiecznej i efektywnej eksploatacji tych obiektów. Odpowiednie wykorzystanie geokompozytów drenażowych zapewnia bezproblemową pracę konstrukcji oraz właściwą ochronę przed uszkodzeniami wynikającymi z niekontrolowanego oddziaływania wody.

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  • Availability of UAV Fleet Evaluation Based on Multi-State System

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    • E. Zaitseva
    • V. Levashenko
    • V. Mysko
    • S. Czapp
    • D. Zhaxybayev

    - IEEE Access - Year 2024

    Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) applications are extended extremely. Some applications need to use several UAVs for a general mission which can be considered a UAV fleet. One of the important characteristics for the evaluation of a UAV or UAV fleet is reliability. There are studies in which methods for analysis of their reliability are considered. Reliability analysis of UAV fleets is less frequently studied, although a single UAV...

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  • Study of railway traffic safety based on the railway track condition monitoring system

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    - Year 2020

    The solution to the problem of monitoring the railway track, as well as potentially dangerous objects and phenomena in the adjacent territories, is determined by the need to implement increased requirements for traffic safety (primarily to the geometric parameters of the devices of a long railway track under construction and functioning load-bearing highways), prevention of technological disasters and large-scale negative effects...

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  • Activity of Patents in Fuel Cells and Hydrogen Production in the Context of Passenger Car Fleet in the V4 Countries

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    - Studies in Logic, Grammar and Rhetoric - Year 2022

    The hydrogen market in the world today is capable ovule and em-pirical evidence on activity of patents in fuel cells and hydrogen production islimited so far. Patent applications in zero-emission mobility in the aspect of fuelcells include: DAFC/DMFC&DMFC, PEMFC, SOFC, AFC, PAFC. As for thepatents relating to the hydrogen production, they concern low carbon, electrol-ysis and inorganic. The purpose of the study was to investigate...

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  • Historic railway stations, documentation and revitalization of the railway infrastructure facilities - protection of cultural and social heritage

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    - Year 2012

    The article presents problems of documentation and adaptation of buildings which constitute the cultural heritage of the railway infrastructure facilities in Pomerania in Poland. Shows the potential and possibilityto be adopted for various purposes. This problem affects many sites and buildings, railway stations, railway warehouses, residential buildings, technical buildings, water towers, trackman shelters, bridges, viaducts,...

  • Trolleybus Fleet Characteristics

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    - Year 2013

    W pracy przedstawiono nowoczesne rozwiązania taboru trolejbusowego stosowane w Europie

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  • APPLICATION OF VIBRATION SIGNALS IN RAILWAY TRACK DIAGNOSTICS USING A MOBILE RAILWAY PLATFORM

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    - Archives of Transport - Year 2024

    The article presents a comprehensive method for using vibration signals to diagnose railway tracks. The primary objective is to gather detailed information on track conditions through a passive experiment. This involves using mobile diagnostic tools and techniques to assess railway infrastructure. The article elaborates on the range of diagnostic activities conducted in accordance with detailed railway regulations and highlights...

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  • Magdalena Apollo dr inż.

    2017 - PhD in Civil Engineering, thesis: Risk management in construction investments related to urban regeneration projects, Gdansk University of Technology IX 2012–VI 2013 - Postgraduate Studies at Gdynia Maritime University: Research Project Management (IPMA D Certificate) 2010 – MSc in Management and Marketing, Gdansk University of Technology 2007 – MSc in Civil Engineering, Gdansk University of Technology 2007-2010 - structural...

  • Wioleta Kucharska dr hab. inż.

    Wioleta Kucharska  (Associate Professor at the Faculty of Management and Economics of the Gdansk University of Technology, Fahrenheit Universities Union, Poland), published so far with Wiley, Springer, Taylor & Francis, Emerald, Sage, Elsevier, and Routledge. She is scientifically involved in tacit knowledge and the company culture of knowledge, learning, and collaboration (KLC approach) topics. Recently, she discovered the...

  • Projekt badawczy BRIK: Opracowanie innowacyjnej metody wyznaczania precyzyjnej trajektorii pojazdu szynowego

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    - Przegląd Komunikacyjny - Year 2019

    W artykule przedstawiono podstawowe informacje dotyczące projektu badawczego realizowanego na zlecenie Narodowego Centrum Badań i Rozwoju oraz Spółki PKP Polskie Linie Kolejowe S. A. przez Konsorcjum Politechniki Gdańskiej i Uniwersytetu Morskiego w Gdyni. Projekt obejmuje wykorzystanie nowoczesnych metod pomiarowych, takich jak techniki pozycjonowania satelitarnego GNSS, pomiary inercyjne INS oraz skaning laserowy LS, w procesie...

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  • Projects of noise level on railway lines

    Open Research Data
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    Projects of acoustic signals from railway lines for further analysis in the BK Connect program.

  • projects of noise level on railway lines

    Open Research Data
    open access

    Projects of acoustic signals from railway lines for further analysis in the BK Connect software.

  • Computer application for railway track realignment

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    - Year 2014

    The topic of this article is the issue of railway track realignment. For this purpose, a computer software application was created that supports computations and generates a report needed for regulation of the trajectory of the railway. This program gives the ability to import data from measurement of the railway trajectory and then perform the calculation of the mathematical realignment. The result of this calculation is the basis...

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  • Innovative Railway Stations

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    In relation to modern demographic trends, evolving technologies and environmentfriendly solutions increases the potential of rail considered as sustainable form of public transport. Contemporary tendencies of designing railway stations in Europe are focused on lowering energy consumption and reducing carbon emission. The main goal of the designers is to create a friendly and intuitive space for its users and at the same time a...

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  • Małgorzata Zięba dr hab. inż.

  • Measurements of displacement and acceleration of the railway bridge at km 333-254 of the Vilnius - Klaipeda railway line

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    - Year 2020

    The purpose of this work is to perform a report of static and dynamic test realized on the bridge at km 333-254 of the Vilnius - Klaipeda railway line over the Salantas River in Kūlupėnų.

  • Towards solving heterogeneous fleet vehicle routing problem with time windows and additional constraints: real use case study

    In advanced logistic systems, there is a need for a comprehensive optimization of the transport of goods, which would reduce costs. During past decades, several theoretical and practical approaches to solve vehicle routing problems (VRP) were proposed. The problem of optimal fleet management is often transformed to discrete optimization problem that relies on determining the most economical transport routes for a number of vehicles...

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  • Monitoring of current collectors on the railway line

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    Proper cooperation the current collectors and the overhead line is a pre-requisite for reliable and safe operation of railway transport. Instances of maladjustment and, in some cases, damage to the current collectors, occur between periodic inspections of the rolling stock. In order to detect such anomalies quickly, the test stand was developed, with the aim of monitoring the technical state of the current collectors under operating...

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  • Safety of Single-Channel Railway Traffic Control

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    - Problemy Kolejnictwa - Railway Reports - Year 2020

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  • Marek Wirkus dr hab. inż.

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    M. Sc. (1977 in the field of mechanical engineering technology and production management); Ph.D. degree in the field of Economic Sciences (1990; production management using IT techniques), habilitated doctor in the field of Economic Sciences, in the discipline of Management Sciences (2007 in the area of managing the portfolio of innovative projects); Co-creator of the Faculty of Management and Economics (1993); Vice Dean for Continuing...

  • Prospects in elongation of railway transition curves

    The paper presents an analysis of the elongation of transition curves in relation to railway track alignment correction and modernisation. The analysis is based on numerical computations for a wide range of parameters describing a typical railway geometrical layout with transition curves. The differences between the horizontal ordinates of the existing layout and the layout with the elongated transition curves are evaluated and...

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  • Modernization of tram lines with the use of railway design standards

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    The article presents the main differences between the process of upgrading railway and tram routes. Geometrical layout designing is an issue of the interest. Railway designing rules that may be helpful in the design of the modernization are specified.

  • Improvement of subsoil and railway substructure by explosive means.

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    Quick and effective method of subsoil and railway substructure improvement by using explosive means (registered trade name: microblasting) allowes design and construct railways on lowered bearing soils (i.e. wetlands, marshlands, industrial by-products, municipal wastes, degraded antropogenic embankments). It is usefull and recommendable technology to construct new railways, modernization or maintenance and repairing of old ones...

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  • Earthworks calculations due to reconstruction of railway geometrical layout

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    - Year 2014

    The paper characterizes continuation of ongoing work of computer program MUGO which is connected with earthworks. The program is related to the modernization of the railway track layout. The methodology for the calculating the size of earthworks in the areas of embankments on the two way railway line is discussed in detail.

  • Effect of Different Structure Type Traffic On Railway Line Capacity

    The article points to methods of analyzing railway traffic conditions based on two parameters: capacity and delay of trains. The impact of the differentiated railway type structure on the capacity of the railway line was presented. Particular attention has been paid to the assessment of commonly used simplifications in analyzes.

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  • Potential reduction of traffic noise by the means of increased fleet of electric vehicles using a combination of low-noise tyres and low-noise road surfaces

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    - Year 2016

    In the future, the number of zero-emission vehicles like electric and plug-in hybrid vehicles (in electric mode) is expected to be a substantial part of the vehicle fleet. In Norway, such vehicles already account for approximately 20 % of all new cars sold. Since these vehicles emit negligible noise related to the power-train, the tyre/road noise is the dominating noise source. In the LEO project, tyres designed for such cars have...

  • Mobile satellite measurements on the Pomeranian Metropolitan Railway

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    - Przegląd Komunikacyjny - Year 2016

    This paper presents the process of organization and execution of the mobile satellite measurements conducted on the tracks of the Pomeranian Metropolitan Railway before officially entry the line into operation. These measurements allowed for the accurate identification of the actual geometric shape of the line. In the paper the issues of both design and construction phase of this railway line has been described. Moreover, the geodetic...

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  • Adaptive Management Approach to an Infrastructure Project

    The paper presents an adaptive approach to project management, illustrated by the description of a case study, i.e., of a project whose aim was to develop the means and prepare the documentation for the revitalization of a railway line. The project itself was a major challenge for the implementers due to a novel and innovative subject thereof, including the construction of a railway line which takes place in a difficult terrain...

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  • Krzysztof Leja dr hab. inż.

    Krzysztof Leja graduated from the Faculty of Applied Physics at Gdansk University of Technology, PhD in economics, DSc in management. Associate professor and v-ce dean for research at the Faculty of Management and Economics, Gdansk University of Technology. His fields of interest include research of HEIs and policy studies. He is an expert of Polish Rectors Foundation and Ministry of Science and Higher Education. He led and participated...

  • System for tracking multiple trains on a test railway track

    Several problems may arise when multiple trains are to be tracked using two IP camera streams. In this work, real-life conditions are simulated using a railway track model based on the Pomeranian Metropolitan Railway (PKM). Application of automatic clustering of optical flow is investigated. A complete tracking solution is developed using background subtraction, blob analysis, Kalman filtering, and a Hungarian algorithm. In total,...

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  • System for tracking multiple trains on a test railway track

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    Several problems may arise when multiple trains are to be tracked using two IP camera streams. In this work, real-life conditions are simulated using a railway track model based on the Pomeranian Metropolitan Railway (PKM). Application of automatic clustering of optical flow is investigated. A complete tracking solution is developed using background subtraction, blob analysis, Kalman filtering, and a Hungarian algorithm. In total,...

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  • THE APPLICATION EFFECTS OF CONTINUOUS SATELLITE MEASUREMENTS OF RAILWAY LINES

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    The paper presents results of satel lite surveying of the railway's rout es, which have been conducted just after starting in Poland (in 2008) the Active Geodesy Network ASG-EU POS. Afterwards it was possible to effectively utilize the GNSS survey ing results for the inventory of the (exploring) railways in service. Already at the beginning of 2009, the research team from Gdansk University of Technology and Naval Academy in Gdynia,...

  • Dynamic analysis of the railway bridge span under moving loads

    The first part of this paper provides a review of the state of knowledge of the dynamic behaviour of railway bridges under moving loads. Particular attention is paid to developments in modelling railway bridge loading and dynamic vehicle-span (structure) interaction. The most important aspects determining the advancements in this area of knowledge are identified. The contemporary techniques for defining bridge span finite element...

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  • Multi-Criteria Optimization for Fleet Size with Environmental Aspects

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    - Transportation Research Procedia - Year 2017

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  • Stability criteria as constraints in a fleet of ships optimisation problem

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    - Year 2005

    Rozwiązano problem dotyczący matematycznej optymalizacji floty statków wielozadaniowych typu rzeka-morze, przeznaczonych dla europejskiej żeglugi przybrzeżnej i eksploatowanych w obszarze Mórz Północnego i Bałtyckiego, na poziomie zadania transportowego za pomocą metod programowania nieliniowego z ograniczeniami. Zaproponowano metodę włączenia istniejących kryteriów skuteczności statków jako ograniczeń w ogólnym modelu optymalizacji...

  • Preparatory Railway Track Geometry Estimation Based on GNSS and IMU Systems

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    The article discusses an important issue of railway line construction and maintenance, which fundamentally is the verification of geometric parameters of the railway track. For this purpose, mobile measurements have been performed using a measuring platform with two properly arranged GNSS receivers, which made it possible to determine the base vector of the platform. The measuring functionality of the system was extended by IMU....

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  • Research project BRIK: development of an innovative method for determining the precise trajectory of a railway vehicle

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    - Przegląd Komunikacyjny - Year 2019

    In the paper the essential assumptions regarding a research project implemented by a consortium of Gdansk University of Technology and Gdynia Maritime University are presented. The project has been commissioned by National Center of Research and Development with cooperation with Polish Railways (PKP Polskie Linie Kolejowe S.A.). The project is focused in implementation of modern measurement techniques using Global Navigation Positioning...

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  • Positive management of the university

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    Purpose: To demonstrate that contemporary universities may be improved by synthesis of strategic antinomies, i.e. seeking the possibility of combining opposite approaches to solving problems concerning university organization and management. Findings: That approach discounts the importance of building positive relationships between members of staff and undertaking activities intended to create a situation where the...

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  • Computer-aided reconstruction of the railway track axis geometrical shape

    In the paper a method of the railway track axis geometrical shape identification in a horizontal plane, directly from the continuous satellite measurements, is presented. In this method, an algorithm for the design of railway track sections located in the horizontal arc is used. The algorithm uses an analytical description of the layout by means of suitable mathematical formulas. The design procedure has a universal character and...

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  • A Visual Method of Measuring Railway-Track Weed Infestation Level

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    This paper concerns the assessment of railway track surface conditions in relation to the degree of weed infestation. The paper conceptually describes the proposed method using a visual system to analyse weed infestation level. The use of image analysis software for weed detection is also proposed. This new measurement method allows for a mobile assessment of the track’s weed infestation status. Validation of the assessment method...

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  • The impact of knowledge risk management on sustainability

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    - Journal of Knowledge Management - Year 2022

    Purpose The purpose of this study is to examine the effect of knowledge risk management (KRM) on organizational sustainability and the role of innovativeness and agility in this relationship. Methodology The study presents the results of a quantitative survey performed among 179 professionals from knowledge-intensive organizations dealing with knowledge risks and their management in organizations. Data included in this study are...

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  • Beata Krawczyk-Bryłka dr

    Psycholog, doktor nauk humanistycznych w dziedzinie zarządzania, adiunkt w Katedrze przedsiębiorczości. 2018 - 2021: Kierownik projektu NCN: „Efektuacyjny model zespołu przedsiębiorczego. Jak działają przedsiębiorcze zespoły odnoszące sukces" od 2016: Quality Standards Lead filaru People management & personal development na studiach MBA Politechniki Gdańskiej 2008 – 2012: Prodziekan ds kształcenia Wzydziału Zarządzania i Ekonomii...

  • Verification of GNSS Measurements of the Railway Track Using Standard Techniques for Determining Coordinates

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    - Remote Sensing - Year 2020

    The problem of the reproduction of the railway geometric layout in the global spatial system is currently solved in the form of measurements that use geodetic railway networks and also, in recent years, efficient methods of mobile positioning (mainly satellite and inert). The team of authors from the Gdańsk University of Technology and the Maritime University in Gdynia as part of the research project InnoSatTrack is looking for...

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  • Collective creativity in management science

    Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to establish the current state of knowledge on collective creativity in management science on the basis of a systematic literature review. Methodology: A systematic review was performed based on the three-step SPL procedure proposed by Tranfield et al. (2003). Two databases (Scopus and Web of Science) were searched electronically up until March 2022. Based on the secondary data a literature...

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  • Framework for extracting rails and setting-out railway line axis based on UAV photogrammetric measurements

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    open access - series: Algorithms

    Technical diagnostics enables assessing the current technical condition of a railway line and adjacent infrastructure, and to forecast its changes over a specific time horizon. One of its elements is the periodic monitoring of rail position and their geometry. The data set presents a new framework for the setting-out of a railway track axis. The process...