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    • Testing of railway vehicles using roller rigs 

      Myamlin, Sergey; Kalivoda, Jan; Neduzha, Larysa (Procedia Engineering, 2017)
      Roller rigs are laboratory devices enabling to study various phenomena in the field of railway vehicles dynamics and the wheel-rail contact. The main benefits of roller rig experiments are high controllability, repeatability ...

    • Temperature effect on deformation and fracture mechanisms under impact loading of 17Mn1Si steel with explicit accounting structural heterogeneity 

      Moiseenko, Dmitry; Maruschak, Pavlo; Panin, Sergey; Maksimov, Pavel; Vlasov, Ilya; Berto, Filippo; Vinogradov, Alexey; Schmauder, Siegfried; Prentkovskis, Olegas (Procedia Engineering, 2017)
      The effect of the microstructure parameters as well as the testing temperature on the impact toughness of 17Mn1Si steel has been studied. The interrelation between the testing temperature during impact bending and deformation ...

    • Railway rolling stock compressors capacity and main reservoirs volume calculation methods 

      Petrenko, Viačeslav (Procedia Engineering, 2017)
      Existing railway rolling stock compressors capacity and main reservoirs volume calculations methods were created in 1960−1970 and do not take into account the achievements of modern railway pneumatic technologies and the ...

    • Evaluation of a security control lane with the application of fuzzy logic 

      Kierzkowski, Artur; Kisiel, Tomasz (Procedia Engineering, 2017)
      The article presents a model for the evaluation of a security control lane at an airport with the application of fuzzy logic. The model allows for carrying out a multi-criteria evaluation of a security control system by ...

    • Reflection on the possibilities for monitoring the aging bridge structures 

      Kaplan, Věroslav; Dvořák, Petr (Procedia Engineering, 2017)
      The paper contains an analysis of the current state of road bridges in the territory of the Czech Republic. The basic types of defects and several usual faults of road bridge structures and their influence on bridge load ...

    • Research of influence of dynamic characteristics for options controlled intersection 

      Novikov, Alexander; Katunin, Andrei; Novikov, Ivan; Shevtsova, Anastasiya (Procedia Engineering, 2017)
      The paper analyzed the traffic flow on the regulated crossroads given the heterogeneity of the composition of the traffic flow. The influence of different modes of transport on the duration of a traffic signal, found that ...

    • Connected vehicles: an innovative transport technology 

      Jadaan, Khair; Zeater, Sana; Abukhalil, Yazan (Procedia Engineering, 2017)
      The emergence of Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) has paved the way to new innovative prospects for improving the safety, operation, and environmental impact of transportation networks. Connected vehicle (CV), a ...

    • The multi-criteria decision support in choosing the efficient location of warehouses in the logistic network 

      Jacyna-Gołda, Ilona; Izdebski, Mariusz (Procedia Engineering, 2017)
      The warehouse facilities location is a complex multi-objective decision problem. In order to determine this location one can use a different mathematical models that describe the location according to the accepted constraints ...

    • Assessment of transport specialists’ competencies in transport/logistics companies 

      Vaičiūtė, Kristina; Skirmantienė, Jolanta; Domanska, Lidia (Procedia Engineering, 2017)
      Constantly changing and globalized labour market is a new challenges for transport/logistics companies. Human resources become particularly important in organizations’ competitive battle. Employees’ knowledge and company's ...

    • Investigation of fiber concrete for road and bridge building 

      Krayushkina, Katerina; Khymerik, Tetiana; Skrypchenko, Oleksandra; Moshkovskyi, Iurii; Pershakov, Valerii (Procedia Engineering, 2017)
      As is well known, fibrous concrete has an increased fracture toughness, impact strength, toughness, and abrasion resistance. Products made of this type of concrete can be manufactured without special reinforcement grids ...

    • Annual assessment of noise generated by road traffic using measurements 

      Jagniatinskis, Aleksandras; Fiks, Boris; Zaporozhets, Oleksandr; Mickaitis, Marius (Procedia Engineering, 2017)
      The noise produced by road transport by the World Health Organization contributes basically to the environment noise pollution. The environmental noise impact by the DIRECTIVE 2002/49/EC is described using the one year ...

    • Improvement of warehouse operations management by considering competencies of human resources 

      Palšaitis, Ramūnas; Čižiūnienė, Kristina; Vaičiūtė, Kristina (Procedia Engineering, 2017)
      Clients generally require logistics services package from organizations engaged in the provision of warehouse logistics services. Successful performance of employees in organizations depend on their ability to adapt to ...

    • Research of system vehicle-track when wheel is scaled 

      Bogdevičius, Marijonas; Žygienė, Rasa (Procedia Engineering, 2017)
      The interaction between wheel and rail is still a great problem of railway engineering. A mathematical model of the system Vehicle-Track, previously developed by the same authors and a newly developed model of vehicle wheel ...

    • Operation of a spark-ignition engine on mixtures of petrol and n-butanol 

      Kukharonak, Heorhi; Ivashko, Viktar; Pukalskas, Saugirdas; Rimkus, Alfredas; Matijošius, Jonas (Procedia Engineering, 2017)
      The Article analyses the use of n-butanol (biobutanol) in mixtures with petrol in spark-ignition (SI) internal combustion engines (ICE). Analysis of the scientific literature allowed determining that n-butanol content had ...

    • Traffic flow prediction using Kalman filtering technique 

      Kumar, Selvaraj Vasantha (Procedia Engineering, 2017)
      Traffic flow prediction is an important research problem in many of the Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) applications. The use of Autoregressive Integrated Moving average (ARIMA) or seasonal ARIMA (SARIMA) for ...

    • Block inspection policy model with imperfect maintenance for single-unit systems 

      Jodejko Pietruczuk, Anna; Werbińska-Wojciechowska, Sylwia (Procedia Engineering, 2017)
      In the presented paper, authors focus on development of mathematical delay-time model for single-unit technical systems with taking into account the assumption of imperfect inspection actions performance. Thus, the briefly ...

    • Accident reconstruction and assessment of cyclist's injuries sustained in car-to-bicycle collision 

      Raslavičius, Laurencas; Bazaras, Liudas; Keršys, Robertas (Procedia Engineering, 2017)
      Cyclists have the largest risk of severe injury when colliding with a motor vehicle. The difference in weight (mass) is huge and the collision energy is mainly absorbed by the lighter ‘object’. A cyclist simulation study ...

    • Identification of the vibration environment of railway infrastructure 

      Burdzik, Rafał; Nowak, Bogusław (Procedia Engineering, 2017)
      The subject matter of vibrations in railway transport is still an ongoing cognitive issue. In terms of an increase of speed, size, as well as weight of rail vehicles, the scale of effects of vibrations generated when a ...

    • Assessment of critical infrastructure elements in transport 

      Dvořák, Zdeněk; Sventeková, Eva; Řehák, David; Čekerevac, Zoran (Procedia Engineering, 2017)
      The paper describes the long process of developing the transport system of risk assessment models. Researchers in Central European countries many years solved the risk assessment models which are based on the accident ...

    • Balanced scorecard use in passenger transport companies performing at Polish market 

      Tubis, Agnieszka; Werbińska-Wojciechowska, Sylwia (Procedia Engineering, 2017)
      The presented paper discusses the theoretical issues concerning the development and implementation of the Balanced Scorecard. Thus, the briefly literature review in this research area is provided. Following this, on the ...