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Transport of dangerous goods by rail, and threats to the subsoil of the railway surface in the event of a disaster
PublikacjaIn Poland, in 2020, the mass of dangerous goods (loads) transported by rail was 26 151.06 thousand tone. This translated into the performance of 8 899 691.89 thousand tone - km of transport performance. In 2020, these figures accounted for 11.72% of the weight of goods transported by rail. The situation is similar in other countries around the world. With such a large volume of transport of dangerous...
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DISASTERS
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Analysis of causes of crude oil tankers' disasters
PublikacjaW referacie przedstawiono dane statystyczne dotyczące rozlewów ropy surowej oraz opis katastrof tankowców w latach 1999-2003. Zlekceważenie problemów poprawnej eksploatacji wielokrotnie kończy się tragicznie. Z tych powodów wypełniony ropą grecki tankowiec ''Amaragos'' czy też maltańska ''Erika'' złamały się na pół i poszły na dno. Przykładów takich jest więcej. W referacie przedstawiono analizę przyczyn rozlewów olejowych według...
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Geoenvironmental Disasters
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Fundamentals of Communication Networks Resilience to Disasters and Massive Disruptions
PublikacjaCommunication networks are exposed to a variety of massive failure events following from activities of nature, weather-induced disruptions, technology-implied problems, and malicious human activities. In this chapter, we first highlight the characteristics of these scenarios and discuss example failure events reported during the last three decades. Next, we explain the concept of network resilience and present an overview of major...
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Improving the Survivability of Carrier Networks to Large-Scale Disasters
PublikacjaThis chapter is dedicated to the description of methods aiming to improve the survivability of carrier networks to large-scale disasters. First, a disaster classification and associated risk analysis is described, and the disaster-aware submarine fibre-optic cable deployment is addressed aiming to minimize the expected costs in case of natural disasters. Then, the chapter addresses the improvement of the network connectivity resilience...
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Marcin Andrzej Madziała dr n. o zdr.
OsobyResearch and teaching activities Emergency Medicine;Resuscitation; Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation; CPR; Airway Management; Emergency Management; Emergency Medical Services; Intubation; Trauma; Emergency Treatment; EMS; Prehospital Medicine; Mechanical Ventilation; Ventilation; Medical Simulation; Wounds; Disaster Management; Disaster Planning; Disaster Preparedness; Disaster Safety and Management; Sociology of Medicine
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eFRADIR: An Enhanced FRAmework for DIsaster Resilience
PublikacjaThis paper focuses on how to increase the availability of a backbone network with minimal cost. In particular, the new framework focuses on resilience against natural disasters and is an evolution of the FRADIR/FRADIR-II framework. It targets three different directions, namely: network planning, failure modeling, and survivable routing. The steady state network planning is tackled by upgrading a sub-network (a set of links termed...
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Japanese Railway Engineering
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Railway Engineering Science
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Innovative Railway Stations
PublikacjaIn 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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Disaster-Resilient Routing Schemes for Regional Failures
PublikacjaLarge-scale natural disasters can have a profound effect on the telecommunication services in the affected geographical area. Hence, it is important to develop routing approaches that may help in circumventing damaged regional areas of a network. This prompted the development of geographically diverse routing schemes and also of disaster-risk aware routing schemes. A minimum-cost geodiverse routing, where a minimum geographical...
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Knowledge management and disaster management in tourism industry
PublikacjaPurpose – This conceptual paper aims to present the results of the literature analysis devoted to the application of knowledge management and its processes in the situation of a crisis caused by a natural disaster. On the basis of the analysed papers, the theoretical model linking knowledge management and crisis management for the tourism industry has been proposed. Findings - The proposed theoretical model presents the role of...
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Study of railway traffic safety based on the railway track condition monitoring system
PublikacjaThe 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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APPLICATION OF VIBRATION SIGNALS IN RAILWAY TRACK DIAGNOSTICS USING A MOBILE RAILWAY PLATFORM
PublikacjaThe 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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Journal of Natural Disasters
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Disaster Advances
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The potential of historical railway infrastructure, possibilities of its adaptation on the examples of railway water towers
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Railway noise problems in Poland
PublikacjaCelem referatu jest przedstawienie zagadnień związanych z hałasem kolejowym. W pierwszej kolejności podano przegląd badań związanych z hałasem kolejowym, które są prowadzone w polskich ośrodkach i instytucjach naukowych. Przytoczono również główne modele hałasu kolejowego zawarte w dyrektywach europejskich (projekty HARMONOISE i IMAGINE). Dodatkowo zaimplementowano wybrane modele hałasu kolejowego dla warunków polskiego taboru...
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A survey of strategies for communication networks to protect against large-scale natural disasters
PublikacjaRecent natural disasters have revealed that emergency networks presently cannot disseminate the necessary disaster information, making it difficult to deploy and coordinate relief operations. These disasters have reinforced the knowledge that telecommunication networks constitute a critical infrastructure of our society, and the urgency in establishing protection mechanisms against disaster-based disruptions. Hence, it is important...
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Learning from the often-forgotten Jan Heweliusz disaster
PublikacjaPrzedstawiono konieczność przeprowadzenia badań nad zatonięciem promu Jan Heweliusz, którego katastrofa - w odróżnieniu od innych promów - została przemilczana i nie wywołała żadnych badań naukowych.
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Scheduling jobs to contain a natural disaster: a model and complexity
Publikacjathis paper is devoted to the problem of scheduling suppression units so that a natural disaster is dealt with as efficient as possible. the concept of deteriorating jobs is adopted, that is, the formal model of scheduling represents linearly increasing value loss as the disaster remains unsuppressed and increasing time for its suppression. more precisely, two different goals are considered: finding a suppression schedule of minimal...
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PLANNING AND ANALYSIS OF EARTHQUAKE DISASTER RELIEF WORK IN ETHIOPIA
PublikacjaThis paper addresses dynamic planning and analysis of earthquake disaster relief work by analysis the disaster throughout the technical and procedural method. And combine this analysis as continues assessment for better input to investigating planning disaster for discontinuous economic growth. This implemented, considering the vulnerability and hazard analysis as a procedural analysis disaster to estimating acceptance risk leveling...
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Survivability function - a measure of disaster-based routing performance.
PublikacjaZnaczenie przeżywalności sieci transmisji danych systematycznie rośnie, ponieważ awaria pojedynczego elementu może dotknąć miliony użytkowników na dużym obszarze. Zdefiniowano funkcję przeżywalności: prawdopodobieństwo realizacji określonego procentu strumieni użytkowników po awarii oraz atrybuty przeżywalności. Celem pracy było zbadanie wpływu protokołów doboru tras architektury TC/IP na funkcję i atrybuty przeżywalności. Pracę...
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Disaster-resilient communication networks: Principles and best practices
PublikacjaCommunication network failures that are caused by disasters, such as hurricanes, arthquakes and cyber-attacks, can have significant economic and societal impact. To address this problem, the research community has been investigating approaches to network resilience for several years. However, aside from well-established techniques, many of these solutions have not found their way into operational...
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Historic railway stations, documentation and revitalization of the railway infrastructure facilities - protection of cultural and social heritage
PublikacjaThe 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,...
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Measurements of displacement and acceleration of the railway bridge at km 333-254 of the Vilnius - Klaipeda railway line
PublikacjaThe 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.
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Journal of Railway Engineering Society
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Journal of the Korean Society for Railway
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Disaster Resilience of Optical Networks: State of the Art, Challenges, and Opportunities
PublikacjaFor several decades, optical networks, due to their high capacity and long-distance transmission range, have been used as the major communication technology to serve network traffic, especially in the core and metro segments of communication networks. Unfortunately, our society has often experienced how the correct functioning of these critical infrastructures can be substantially hindered by massive failures triggered by natural...
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On the Disaster Resiliency within the Context of 5G Networks : The RECODIS Experience
PublikacjaNetwork communications and the Internet pervade our daily activities so deeply that we strongly depend on the availability and quality of the services they provide. For this reason, natural and technological disasters, by affecting network and service availability, have a potentially huge impact on our daily lives. Ensuring adequate levels of resiliency is hence a key issue that future network paradigms, such as 5G, need to address. This...
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Problems of Railway Noise-A Case Study
PublikacjaUnder Directive 2002/49/EC relating to the assessment and management of environmental noise, all European countries are obliged to model their environmental noise levels in heavily populated areas. Some countries have their own national method, to predict noise but most have not created one yet. The recommendation for countries that do not have their own model is to use an interim method. The Dutch SRM II scheme is suggested for...
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Problems of Railway Noise—A Case Study
PublikacjaUnder Directive 2002/49/EC relating to the assessment and management of environmental noise, all European countries are obliged to model their environmental noise levels in heavily populated areas. Some countries have their own national method, to predict noise but most have not created one yet. The recommendation for countries that do not have their own model is to use an interim method....
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Computer application for railway track realignment
PublikacjaThe 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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Monitoring of current collectors on the railway line
PublikacjaProper 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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Prospects in elongation of railway transition curves
PublikacjaThe 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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The Impact of New Telematics Solutions on the Safety of Railway Traffic on the Example of Modern Simulators Railway Traffic Control Devices
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Reinforced Secure Gossiping Against DoS Attacks in Post-Disaster Scenarios
PublikacjaDuring and after a disaster, the perceived quality of communication networks often becomes remarkably degraded with an increased ratio of packet losses due to physical damages of the networking equipment, disturbance to the radio frequency signals, continuous reconfiguration of the routing tables, or sudden spikes of the network traffic, e.g., caused by the increased user activity in a post-disaster period. Several techniques have...
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Annals of Burns and Fire Disasters
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Improvement of subsoil and railway substructure by explosive means.
PublikacjaQuick 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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Safety at railway level crossings and Vision Zero
PublikacjaIn this work, safety analysis at the railway level crossings is presented using advanced mathematical modelling. Resistivity of track subgrade panels is taken into account. The analysis does not refer to the assessment of the current regulations. Specific cases of generalized dynamic system are considered by introducing operations S=Δ, S=P defined in space C(N) of real sequences. In this model, generalized discrete exponential...
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Mobile satellite measurements on the Pomeranian Metropolitan Railway
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Determination of the transverse resistance characteristics in railway track
PublikacjaW pracy przedstawiono problem oporów poprzecznych podsypki z punktu widzenia budowy, utrzymania oraz bezpieczeństwa w eksploatacji toru kolejowego. Zaprezentowano różne sposoby analitycznego podejścia do badanego zjawiska na przykładzie modeli matematycznych spotykanych w literaturze. Scharakteryzowano aktualny stan badań doświadczalnych związanych z oporami poprzecznymi. Omówiono różne sposoby prowadzenia takich badań w eksploatowanych...
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Dynamics of Railway Vehicles Movement on Transition Curves
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Safety of Single-Channel Railway Traffic Control
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The steel-glass art of railway stations in Japan
PublikacjaThe steel-glass art of railway stations in Japan
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Analysis of resistive and inductive heating of railway turnouts
PublikacjaElektryczne ogrzewanie rozjazdów kolejowych jest istotnym problemem technicznym i ekonomicznym. Z tych względów potrzebne są badania w celu optymalizacji systemu ogrzewania rozjazdów kolejowych. W artykule przedstawiono analizę porównawczą strat energii podczas ogrzewania rozjazdów kolejowych z wykorzystaniem dwóch różnych metod. Analiza ogrzewania rozjazdów przeprowadzono w programie ANSYS.(Analiza oporowego i indukcyjnego nagrzewania...
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Mobile satellite measurements on the Pomeranian Metropolitan Railway
PublikacjaThis 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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Arching of railway turnouts by analytical design method
PublikacjaThe paper involved the issue of arching of the railway turnouts. This is an issue which is given relatively less attention to scientific and research activities. Reference has been made to the book by Wladyslaw Rzepka, under the title „Curved turnouts in plan and profile”, which has been used in Poland for more than 50 years as the main source of information relating to the turnouts on the curve. The book is a compilation of elaborations...
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Costs of upgrading based on 131 railway line
PublikacjaW poszukiwaniu optymalnego wykorzystania środków finansowych przedsiębiorstwa kolejowego (PKP PLK) oraz czasu planowania napraw torowisk stworzono model trwałości toru. Model w swych założeniach opiera się na parametrach techniczno – eksploatacyjnych linii kolejowej nr 131. W artykule przedstawiono dwa warianty procesu trwałości toru. Pierwszy wariant zakłada oczyszczenie toru, drugi przeprowadzenie modernizacji. Dla obu wariantów...