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In recent years there were two opportunities that can allow a significant advance towards the railway infrastructure management: radio frequency identification, known as RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) and geographical elements in environmental modeling GIS (Geographic Information Systems). Penetration to the top of the public agenda of the carbon pollution issue, which has the effect the increasing acceptability of a decision for introducing carbon taxation in urban communities determine the transition of road freight transport to intermodal freight transport. This article reviews the technological developments and tested solutions to date in attempts to solve the problem of traffic congestion and proposes a new approach based on a combination of technologies that have not yet been applied for this purpose in the proposed formula (Iovan, 2011). A geospatial solution is not a simple map, because a GIS map involves much more than a data "engine" for processing spatial characteristics. After overcoming the visual border, GIS map becomes a remarkable collection of alphanumeric data (attributes) and geographical (positioning elements) which usually are the result of workflows performed by personnel from various functional departments of the institution. Management and maintenance of railway infrastructure using GIS allows administrators to rapidly identify and resolve infrastructure problems caused by the disruptive factors from Romanian railway system.
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