Rail Transport—Systems Approach

Part I. Means of Transport and Maintenance

1. Effects of Braking Characteristics on the Longitudinal Dynamics of Short Passenger Trains
Cătălin Cruceanu, Camil Ion Crăciun, Ioan Cristian Cruceanu

2. The Behavior of the Traction Power Supply System of AC 25 kV 50 Hz During Operation
Radovan Doleček, Ondřej Černý, Zdeněk Němec, Jan Pidanič

3. Systems Approach to the Analysis of Electromechanical Processes in the Asynchronous Traction Drive of an Electric Locomotive
Pavel Kolpakhchyan, Alexander Zarifian, Alexander Andruschenko

4. The Aspects of Modernization of Diesel-Electric Locomotives and Platform for Transportation of Railway Switches in Lithuanian Railways
Lionginas Liudvinavičius, Stasys Dailydka

5. Systems Approach to the Organization of Locomotive Maintenance on Ukraine Railways
Eduard Tartakovskyi, Oleksander Ustenko, Volodymyr Puzyr, Yurii Datsun

Part II. Infrastructure and Management in Rail Transport

6. Systematic and Customer Driven Approach to Cost-Efficiently Improving Interlocking and Signaling in Train Transport
Jörn Schlingensiepen, Florin Nemtanu, Marin Marinov

7. Train Protection Systems in Different Railway Gauges
Lionginas Liudvinavičius, Aleksander Sładkowski

8. Modeling of Traffic Smoothness for Railway Track Closures in the Rail Network
Grzegorz Karoń

9. Assessment of Polish Railway Infrastructure and the Use of Artificial Intelligence Methods for Prediction of Its Further Development
Bogna Mrówczyńska, Maria Cieśla, Aleksander Król

10. Dynamic Optimization of Railcar Traffic Volumes at Railway Nodes
Aleksandr Rakhmangulov, Aleksander Sładkowski, Nikita Osintsev, Pavel Mishkurov, Dmitri Muravev

Keywords: Engineering, Transportation Technology and Traffic Engineering, Computational Intelligence, Logistics