The TRain Committees cum Working Groups

The TRain Effort is (possibly most effectively, most visibly) carried by the works of individuals of working groups.

The TRain Working Groups each handle a cluster of TRain domain research issues, for example:

• Rail net: statics and dynamics (incl. signaling),
• traffic planning: Scheduling and allocation,
• train and traffic operations (overlaps with first above),
• train and net maintenance, staff rostering, etc.
• net planning and development,
• safety-critical assessment,
• etc., etc.

Committees may "come and go": They are set up, by requests from active researchers of the TRain Membership. They "report" to the biennial (or so) Presidium Assemblies.

Individuals, researchers of TRain Domain Issues,

• set up a working group,
• around a more-or-less narrowly defined topic,
• start researching that topic,
• gather colleagues, from around the world,
• to also work on that topic,
• arrange workshops,
• etc.

The committees shall help register

• past and
• ongoing research.

• Reports,
• manuals,
• standards,
• journal articles,
• proceedings, and
• books.

The committees shall, individually, or as a group, arrange

• workshops,
• symposia,
• conferences and
• congresses.

Each committee shall endeavour to sketch research agendas:

• Open issues,
• outstanding/unsolved problems,
• etc.

The group of committee shall (if need be) investigate need for a

• TRain Journal.

Proposed Committees

Any overlap in the work of the below sketched/proposed committees is seen as purely beneficial.

• "Modelisation" of Railway Signalling Issues

  Interlocking, line block management, line direction management, etc.

• "Modelisation" of Time Tabling and Net Development Issues

  Passenger statistics versus (long term) net planning

• "Modelisation" of Train and Net Maintenance Issues

  Scheduled, and unscheduled maintenance of cars, rails, signals, etc.

• "Modelisation" of Passenger Handling Issues

  Information, inquiries, ticket sales, journey planning, ticketing, etc.

• "Modelisation" of Freight Handling Issues

  Information, inquiries, freight receipt, handling, delivery, tracing

• "Modelisation" of Strategic Railway System Issues

• Etcetera ...

Initial Working Groups

Railway Net Topology:

Interlocking:

Signals:

Time Tabling and Nets:

Train Composition & Decomposition:

Train Maintenance:

Line Direction Agreement Protocols:

Automatic Line Signalling Systems:

Axiomatic Safety-Critical Assessment

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