George Raymond: publications
See also my curriculum vitae and the project portfolio of Raymond Railweb Consulting.
Abbreviations:
| IRSE | Institution of Railway Signal Engineers |
| IRSE-CH | IRSE Swiss Section |
Rail freight
| Eurasian rail: “Rail freight from Europe to China and back: brakes and potential“. Railweb Reports, 31 October 2021. |
| Eurasian rail for chemicals: “More chemicals on the rails to China?” Translation of my article dans CHEManager 10/2021, 13 October 2021, p. 24. |
| Combined transport in Poland: “Polish intermodal rail freight, Europe and the Silk Road”. A conference in Poznań. Railweb Reports, 21 January 2021. |
| New trimodal terminal Gateway Basel Nord: “Saying YES to Port Basin 3“, a statement before the referendum of 29 November 2020 in Basel. |
| Innovation in rail freight: “Getting freight to change trains like passengers do”. A solution from Stefan Karch. IRSE News, September 2020, pp. 32-37. |
| Rail freight in Basel: “Consolidating control in the Port of Switzerland”. The renewal of the port railway. IRSE News, February 2020, pp. 24-29. |
| French rail freight: “Rail freight: Is France waking up?”. News from the annual conference in Levallois. Railweb Reports, 1 February 2020. |
| Rail freight between Europe and China: “Is this rail’s decade on the Silk Road?”. A conference in the Dutch city of Venlo. Railweb Reports, 10 January 2020. |
| Domestic regions and international freight: “French rail freight: act locally, but know the bigger picture”. Conferences of the National Combined-Transport Group (GNTC) and France’s Centre-Val de Loire region. Railweb Reports, 18 November 2019. |
| Rails to Sydney: Cover photo and accompanying text on prospects for the Grand Narrows Bridge in Nova Scotia, Canada, part of the only rail link to the urban community and port of Sydney. IRSE News, April 2019, cover and p. 1. |
| Tri-modal terminals: “Europe’s inland terminals in a fast-changing world”, a report on current trends in logistics and inland terminals, including their roles, organisation and collaboration and the rail and water links and services that connect them. Railweb Reports, 9 January 2017. |
| A new tri-model terminal for Basel: “A quantum step for freight in the Basel area”, a report on plans to build a new intermodal terminal by 2022 in Basel, Switzerland, to be served by rail, road and the Rhine. Railweb Reports, 5 September 2016. |
| Combined transport / intermodal service: “Finally: a wagon to carry standard semi-trailers throughout Europe”, a report on Lohr Industrie’s railway wagon for carriage of standard, 4-metre truck semi-trailers throughout the European rail network. Railweb Reports, 6 March 2016. |
Railway infrastructure
| New tunnel on BLS: “Equipping Rosshäusern Tunnel west of Bern”, a report on BLS’s new, 2.1 km tunnel, which in September 2018 replaced 2.4 km of sinuous track and avoided a troublesome stream. IRSE News, February 2018, pp. 34-37. |
| Gotthard road and rail tunnels: “For a vote against the second Gotthard road tunnel on February 28”. The rail tunnel that opened in 2016 and emerging technology will make the additional road tunnel superfluous. Railweb Reports, 19 February 2016. |
| Switzerland’s Rhaetian Railway: “Past, present and future on the Albula line”, a report on an IRSE-CH technical tour. IRSE News, November 2015, pp. 25-26. |
| Gotthard base tunnel: Principal author of “Inside the Gotthard Base Tunnel”, a report on an IRSE-CH technical tour. IRSE News, December 2014, pp. 16-17. |
Signalling and traffic control
| Commercial, off-the-shelf parts: “Filling a missing link among COTS components”, a report co-authored with Patrick Sonderegger on designing a safe interface between an interlocking and its signals and points. IRSE News, March 2021, pp. 30-34. |
| Zurich main station: Cover photo of station throat and accompanying text on the station’s interlocking, which dates from 1966. SBB has announced no plans to replace it. IRSE News, October 2019, cover and p. 1. |
| Signalling in Europe: “ERTMS in Denmark and the UK – and relay risks in Europe”, a report on an IRSE-CH conference on ERTMS implementation and on risk management for relays in Europe’s interlocking systems. IRSE News, September 2016, pp. 22-25. |
| Yard control and interfaces between interlockings: “Sorting wagons and interfacing the interlockings near Lausanne”, a report on an IRSE-CH technical visit. IRSE News, February 2016, pp. 24-26. |
| Non-interoperable railways: Principal author of “Train Protection for Non-interoperable Railways”, a report on an IRSE-CH conference on train protection on railways whose gauge or other characteristics keep them from exchanging trains with mainline railways. IRSE News, October 2015, pp. 28-30. |
| Level crossings: “Simplifying Level Crossings for Savings – and Safety”, a report on an IRSE-CH event on solutions for small level crossings at the company Schweizer Electronic in Rieden, Switzerland. IRSE News, February 2015, pp. 23-24. |
| Satellite applications: “The role of satellites in movement authorization: an intercontinental perspective”, a presentation on the role of satellite navigation in train control in Europa and North America at the Conference on European Satellite Navigation for Railways, Lille, France, 20 November 2014. |
| CENELEC standards: “Where are the CENELEC standards going?”, a report on a conference of the Swiss Section of the Institution of Railway Signal Engineers (IRSE) on the CENELEC standards that are legally mandatory for railway signalling. IRSE News, September 2014, pp. 21-23. |
| ETCS: “ETCS Rollout”, a report on presentations to the Swiss Section of the Institution of Railway Signal Engineers (IRSE) on Siemens’ rollout of ETCS Level 1 Limited Supervision on Swiss Federal Railways. IRSE News, April 2014, pp. 13-14. |
| Rail operations safety and dispatching: Principal author of “IRSE Swiss Section International Technical Visit”, a report on a visit of the Institution of Railway Signal Engineers (IRSE) to the test laboratories for the new Gotthard tunnel’s safety systems and to the dispatching centre for the 384 route-km of the Rhaetian Railway in IRSE News, June 2013, pp. 18-20. |
| Europe and North America: “ERTMS Regional and North American Dark Territory: A Comparison”, in collaboration with Ron Lindsey, Communication Architecture, USA, and Jörn Pachl, Professor at Braunschweig Technical University, Germany. Comparison of ERTMS and North American positive train control (PTC), particularly for low-traffic lines. Presentation on September 11, 2012, at the IRSE ASPECT conference in London and publication in the conference proceedings. |
| ETCS: “The Future of ETCS in Switzerland”, a report on a seminar of the Swiss Section of the Institution of Railway Signal Engineers (IRSE) in IRSE News, September 2012, pp. 34-35. |
| Rail operations: Report on the visit of the Swiss Section of IRSE to the Institute for Transport Planning and Systems (IVT) and to its railway training layout at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich. IRSE News, January 2012, p. 24. |
| Satellite applications: “Innovation brings satellite-based train control within reach”, in collaboration with Juliette Marais and Marion Berbineau of the French National Institute for Transport and Safety Research (INRETS, now IFSTTAR), Lille. Railway Gazette International, December 2004, pp. 835-837. |
| Interlocking systems: “Standards for functions and interfaces as the basis for CBTC in Europe”, presentation and paper on the Euro-Interlocking project on May 7, 2003, at a conference on communications-based train control (CBTC) in Washington DC. |
| Dispatching: “Killwangen-Altstetten: SBB’s Funnel into Zurich”, an overview of rail traffic control west of Zurich first placed online in March 2001. |
Public transport
| Driverless mainline trains and metros: “Driverless trains and Zurich airport”, a report and accompanying short video on an IRSE-CH event on driverless trains for mainline railways and the cable-powered people-mover connecting the terminals of Zurich airport. IRSE News, March 2017, pp. 27-29. |
| Romanian rail passenger services: “A recent history of passenger train operators in Romania”, Railweb Reports, 17 February 2017. |
| Basel’s future S-Bahn network: “A quantum step for mobility in the Basel area”, a report on plans to build cross-city tunnels by 2030 as the basis for next-generation rail service in the Basel metropolitan area. Railweb Reports, 6 September 2016. |
| Basel tram extension into France: “Vers le quartier français de Bâle”. The extension of tram line 3 of Basel, Switzerland, into the neighbouring city of Saint-Louis, France. Transports Urbains, October 2013, pp. 22-28. |
Infrastructure and operations in related sectors
| Hydroelectric power storage: “A big rechargeable battery in the Swiss Alps”, a report on an IRSE-CH visit to the Limmern pumped-storage power plant southeast of Zurich and its underground internal railway. IRSE News, February 2019, pp. 21-24. |
| Aerial ropeways: “Safety from the ground up”, a report on an IRSE-CH visit to manufacturer Bartholet Maschinenbau AG of Flums in eastern Switzerland. IRSE News, June 2018, pp. 30-32. |
History and culture
| Technology and art: “Zurich main station’s Big Board and its flaps live on”, a report on artists’ reprogramming of what from 1988 to 2015 was the main departure display in Zurich main station. Railweb Reports, 18 February 2016. |
| Changes over time: “The Rutland Road: Then and Now”, a comparison of scenes from the mid-20th century along the Rutland Railroad in Vermont, USA, with photos from the same vantage points in 2003. |
Rail freight and operations, 1982-1989
| IT application for railway planning: “Railnet III: Cahier des charges fonctionnel”, functional specifications for an IT application to support the planning of rail operations and infrastructure. Institute for Transport and Planning (now LITEP), Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne, February 1989. |
| Control over operational performance: “Boston & Maine Achieves Control over Railroad Performance”, in collaboration with Carl Martland and Henry Marcus, Interfaces 16:5, September-October 1986, pp. 1-16. |
| Management of rail classification yards: “Microcomputer Preparation of Volume-Variable Budgets: Terminals on the Boston & Maine Railroad”, an article on the management of rail marshalling/classification yards written in collaboration with Henry Marcus and Carl Martland, Logistics and Transportation Review, Vol. 20, No. 4, December 1984, pp. 373-386. |
| Management of rail classification yards: “Performance Standards for Rail Terminals: Case Studies from the U.S. and France”, thesis on performance standards and management control systems for railway yards in western Massachusetts (East Deerfield) and eastern France (Woippy/Metz), for my M.S. in Transportation at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, August 1982. Short version in French, January 1984. |
See also my curriculum vitae and the project portfolio of Raymond Railweb Consulting.