Technology of railway stations | Faculty of Technical Sciences

Subject: Technology of railway stations (17.S0I52Ž)

Native organizations units: Department of Traffic Engineering

Type of studies	Title
Master Academic Studies	Traffic and Transport Engineering (Year: 1, Semester: Winter)

General information:

Category	Professional-applicative
Scientific or art field	Organizacija i tehnologije transportnih sistema
ECTS	6

Acquiring knowledge about the basic technologies operation of railway stations and the conditions of their design,goodsl work on railway stations and the development tendencies of the transport system in Europe.

Independent technology operation and capacity design of railway station and selection of optimal technologies to enhance the quality of service delivery on the railway.

The organization of station, technology and operation of section and marshalling stations, switching operation. Organization of car flows. Organization of railway junctions. Organization of work on the industrial gauges. Organization of work in ports. Organization of work in the combined transport terminals. Organization of work in passenger stations. Technical standards in rail transport. Estimate of station capacity. Workload and Forecast of railway stations. Technology of freight traffic. Forwarding in the transport of goods by rail. Train routing problem. Information systems in the initial subsystem terminal operations.

Auditory lectures and exercises. Computational exercises. Designing technology of station (seminar paper). Computational exercises. Design of the railway transport process (seminar paper).

Authors	Title	Year	Publisher	Language
Sofie Burggraeve, Pieter Vansteenwegen	Robust routing and timetabling in complex railway stations	2017	Transportation Research Part B: Methodological, Volume 101, Pages 228-244	English
Melody Khadem Sameni, John Preston, Mona Khadem Sameni	Evaluating efficiency of passenger railway stations: A DEA approach	2016	Research in Transportation Business & Management, Volume 20, Pages 33-38	English
Yoongho Ahn, Tomoya Kowada, Hiroshi Tsukaguchi, Upali Vandebona	Estimation of Passenger Flow for Planning and Management of Railway Stations	2017	Transportation Research Procedia, Volume 25, Pages 315-330	English

Course activity	Pre-examination	Obligations	Number of points
Oral part of the exam	No	Yes	30.00
Term paper	Yes	Yes	20.00
Written part of the exam - tasks and theory	No	Yes	40.00
Exercise attendance	Yes	Yes	5.00
Lecture attendance	Yes	Yes	5.00