Sustainable Rail Transport

1. Front Matter

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2. Defect Detection of Railway Turnout Using 3D Scanning

   • Maryam Ebadi, Morteza Bagheri, Mohammad S. Lajevardi, Badria Haas

   Pages 1-18

3. Developing a Ride Comfort Monitoring System from Scratch: An Experience in a Suburban Railway

   • Jorge Ubirajara Pedreira Junior, Juliana Neves Chaves, Luís Augusto de Souza Santos

   Pages 19-36

4. Introducing Automated Obstacle Detection to British Level Crossings

   • Matthew Dent, Marin Marinov

   Pages 37-80

5. Impact of a “Missing Link” on Passenger’s Travel Time: A Case Study of Tao Poon Station

   • Waressara Weerawat, Taksaporn Thongboonpian, Anna Fraszczyk

   Pages 81-92

6. Modularisation as a Key Success Factor for Academia–Industry Collaboration

   • Frank Michelberger, Birgit Blauensteiner

   Pages 93-99

7. University High Education in Croatia: A Case Study of the Railway Engineering Programme

   • Borna Abramović, Denis Šipuš

   Pages 101-109

8. A State of the Art on Railway Simulation Modelling Software Packages and Their Application to Designing Baggage Transfer Services

   • Ho Ki Yeung, Marin Marinov

   Pages 111-125

9. Influence of Passenger Behaviour on Railway-Station Infrastructure

   • Bernhard Rüger

   Pages 127-160

10. Rail Education in Italy: The Successful Experience of Cooperation Between Academia and Industry at Sapienza

    • Gabriele Malavasi, Stefano Ricci, Luca Rizzetto

    Pages 161-179

11. Regional Railways Transport—Effectiveness of the Regional Railway Line

    • Anna Dolinayova, Jozef Danis, Lenka Cerna

    Pages 181-200

12. Multibody Computational Tool for the Dynamic Analysis of Vehicle–Track Interaction

    • R. E. Shaltout

    Pages 201-221

13. F3—Fast Frequent Fulfilment—Industry–Academic Collaboration

    • Phil Mortimer

    Pages 223-239

14. Exchange of Higher Education Teaching and Learning Practices Between UK and Thailand: A Case Study of RailExchange Courses

    • Anna Fraszczyk, Waressara Weerawat, Marin Marinov, Phumin Kirawanich

    Pages 241-256

15. Digital Railway: Trends and Innovative Approaches

    • Florin Codrut Nemtanu, Marin Marinov

    Pages 257-268

16. Mentoring for Career Development: Organisational Approaches to Engage and Retain Employees

    • Janene Piip

    Pages 269-287

17. Evaluation of a Rail-Orientated Researcher Links Workshop

    • Andrew Dawson, Laura Dacoreggio Volpato Braz, Birgit Blauensteiner, Cassiano Augusto Isler, Acires Dias, Yesid Asaff et al.

    Pages 289-306

18. Back Matter

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These conference proceedings include a collection of articles presented at the RailExchange conference in October 2017 at Newcastle University, UK. They will be useful for researchers in developing countries looking for opportunities of knowledge exchange. The RailExchange project aimed to develop sustainable railway education in Thailand, via international partnerships and industry collaborations based around stakeholders' expertise and experiences. It involved staff exchange (academics and researchers) between Mahidol and Newcastle University for joint research and curriculum development and also organizing railway conferences and workshops in both Thailand and the UK.

The papers published here focus on rail-related issues and present a perspective of a widely understood 'exchange' in academia and industry environments. 'Exchange' is perceived as rail knowledge exchange between partners, rail staff exchange between academia and/or industry, research exchange between teams, student-lecturer knowledge exchange, academia-industry collaboration, etc. In addition, more general rail-related papers are also included.

• rail research
• rail education
• knowledge exchange
• international collaboration
• academia industry partnership
• railway education
• Railway Engineering Programme of Mahidol
• rail knowledge
• Bangkok Mass Transit System
• NewRail
• Railways in developing countries

• Faculty of Engineering, Mahidol University, Salaya, Thailand

  Anna Fraszczyk

• NewRail, Rail Education Group, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom

  Marin Marinov

Dr. Marin Marinov is the Rail Education Group Manager, responsible for NewRail's teaching and learning profile. His educational background includes Technology, Organisation and Management of Train Movement. His Ph.D thesis was on Analysis and Evaluation of Formation Yard Performances. He has worked as a teaching assistant and researcher in the Transportation Systems branch of the MIT/Portugal programme, where he lectured on Transportation Planning and Performance Assessment, Freight Transport and Logistics Processes as well as Railway Engineering.

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