Reliability of manual assessments in determining the types of vegetation on railway tracks
Conference Proceeding
Nyberg, R. G., Yella, S., Gupta, N. K., & Dougherty, M. (2015)
Reliability of manual assessments in determining the types of vegetation on railway tracks. In J. Wang, W. Cellary, D. Wang, H. Wang, S. Chen, T. Li, & Y. Zhang (Eds.), Web Information Systems Engineering – WISE 2015. , (391-399). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-26187-4_37
Current day vegetation assessments within railway maintenance are (to a large extent) carried out manually. This study has investigated the reliability of such manual assessme...
Inter-rater reliability in determining the types of vegetation on railway trackbeds
Conference Proceeding
Nyberg, R. G., Yella, S., Gupta, N. K., & Dougherty, M. (2015)
Inter-rater reliability in determining the types of vegetation on railway trackbeds. In J. Wang, W. Cellary, D. Wang, H. Wang, S. Chen, T. Li, & Y. Zhang (Eds.), Web Information Systems Engineering – WISE 2015. , (379-390). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-26187-4_36
Vegetation growing on railway trackbeds and embankments can present several potential problems. Consequently, such vegetation is controlled through various maintenance procedu...