Social media is a pool of users' thoughts, opinions, surrounding environment, situation and
others. This pool can be used as a real-time and feedback data source for many domains …

National railways are typically large and complex systems. Their network infrastructure
usually includes extended track sections, bridges, stations and other supporting assets. In …

Purpose–As a relatively new computing paradigm, crowdsourcing has gained enormous
attention in the recent decade. Its compliance with the Web 2.0 principles, also, puts forward …

Recently, Twitter has been used as a citizen-engaging platform by Indian Railway Ministry
(IRM) for collecting civic issues. However, due to the manual inspection model, a large …

Despite the increasing relevance of Open Science (OS) in the European research
landscape, very few publications have addressed the analysis of its role within the European …

Social media plays an increasing role in how passengers communicate to, and about, train
operators. In response, train operators and other rail stakeholders are adopting social media …

Spatio-temporal pattern mining attempts to discover unknown, potentially interesting and
useful event sequences in which events occur within a specific time interval and spatial …

Despite the increasing relevance of Open Science (OS) in the European research
landscape, very few publications have addressed the analysis of its role within the European …

While automation of signal and route setting is routine, the use of automation or decision
support in disruption management processes is far less common. Such support offers …

Abstract In the United Kingdom, the railways infrastructure is managed by Network Rail. As
one of fastest growing railways in Europe, secure and costeffective management of a vast …