Modelling railway track geometry deterioration

Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers: Transport

Volumn 164, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 65-75

  Guler, Hakan ^a   Jovanovic, Stanislav ^b   Evren, Gungor ^c  

^a SAKARYA UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b Mer Mec Group   (Italy)

^c OKAN UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Maintenance inspection; Rail track design; Statistical analysis

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL FACTORS; GENERAL INFORMATION; HISTORY DATA; INDEPENDENT VARIABLES; MULTIVARIATE STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; OPTIMISATIONS; RAIL TRACK DESIGN; RAILWAY TRACK; SEGMENTATION ALGORITHMS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TRACK GEOMETRY; TRACK LAYOUT; TRACK MAINTENANCE; TRACK STRUCTURE; TRAFFIC CHARACTERISTICS;

DETERIORATION; ELECTRON EMISSION; FORECASTING; GEOMETRY; MAINTENANCE; MULTIVARIANT ANALYSIS; RAILROADS; RAILS;

RAILROAD TRACKS;

DESIGN METHOD; GEOMETRY; MAINTENANCE; MODELING; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; OPTIMIZATION; RAILWAY;

EID: 79953188366     PISSN: 0965092X     EISSN: 17517710     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1680/tran.2011.164.2.65     Document Type: Article

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