Author: United States. Congress. Office of Technology AssessmentPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : High speed ground transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
Automatic Train Control in Rail Rapid Transit
Author: United States. Congress. Office of Technology AssessmentPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : High speed ground transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
Advances in Communications-Based Train Control Systems
Author: F. Richard YuPublisher: CRC Press
ISBN: 1482257459
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
With rapid population explosion, improving rail transit speed and capacity is strongly desirable around the world. Communication-based train control (CBTC) is an automated train control system using high capacity bidirectional train-ground communications to ensure the safe operation of rail vehicles. This book presents the latest advances in CBTC r
Energy-Efficient Train Control
Author: Philip G. HowlettPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 1447130847
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 315
Book Description
Rail is potentially a very efficient form of transport, but must be convenient, reliable and cost-effective to compete with road and air transport. Optimal control can be used to find energy-efficient driving strategies for trains. This book describes the train control problem and shows how a solution was found at the University of South Australia. This research was used to develop the Metromiser system, which provides energy-efficient driving advice on suburban trains. Since then, this work has been modified to find practical driving strategies for long-haul trains. The authors describe the history of the problem, reviewing the basic mathematical analysis and relevant techniques of constrained optimisation. They outline the modelling and solution of the problem and finally explain how the fuel consumption can be minimised for a journey, showing the effect of speed limits and track gradients on the optimal driving strategy.
Electric Railway Handbook
Author: Albert Sutton RicheyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Electric railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 850
Book Description
Railway Operation and Control
Author: Jörn PachlPublisher:
ISBN: 9780971991590
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
Computers in Railways X
Author: John J. AllanPublisher: WIT Press
ISBN: 1845641779
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 1009
Book Description
This book updates the use of computer-based techniques, promoting their general awareness throughout the business management, design, manufacture and operation of railways and other advanced passenger, freight and transit systems. Including papers from the Tenth International Conference on Computer System Design and Operation in the Railway and Other Transit Systems, the book will be of interest to railway management, consultants, railway engineers (including signal and control engineers), designers of advanced train control systems and computer specialists. Themes of interest include: Planning; Human Factors; Computer Techniques, Management and languages; Decision Support Systems; Systems Engineering; Electromagnetic Compatibility and Lightning; Reliability, Availability, Maintainability and Safety (RAMS); Freight; Advanced Train Control; Train Location; CCTV/Communications; Operations Quality; Timetables; Traffic Control; Global Navigation using Satellite Systems; Online Scheduling and Dispatching; Dynamics and Wheel/Rail Interface; Power Supply; Traction and Maglev; Obstacle Detection and Collision Analysis; Railway Security.
Automatic train control
Author: Association of American Railroads. Committee on Automatic Train ControlPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 1110
Book Description
Railway Safety, Reliability, and Security: Technologies and Systems Engineering
Author: Flammini, FrancescoPublisher: IGI Global
ISBN: 146661644X
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 487
Book Description
Human errors, as well as deliberate sabotage, pose a considerable danger to passengers riding on the modern railways and have created disastrous consequences. To protect civilians against both intentional and unintentional threats, rail transportation has become increasingly automated. Railway Safety, Reliability, and Security: Technologies and Systems Engineering provides engineering students and professionals with a collection of state-of-the-art methodological and technological notions to support the development and certification of real-time safety-critical railway control systems, as well as the protection of rail transportation infrastructures.
Advanced Train Control Systems
Author: Bin NingPublisher: WIT Press
ISBN: 1845644948
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 177
Book Description
Advanced train control systems (ATCS) play an important role in improving the efficiency and safety of train operation, acting as their 'brains and nerves'. This volume gathers selected papers from Comprail, which is the most successful series of conferences in the areas of railways and other transit systems.
Railroad Signaling
Author: Brian SolomonPublisher: Voyageur Press
ISBN: 1616738979
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
From the 1830s to today, the railroad industry has developed myriad complex mechanisms to help keep North America’s railroad rights-of-ways safe, efficient, and relatively accident-free. In this paperback rerelease of the successful 2003 title, the otherwise-arcane world of railroad signaling is explained in concise language and brought to life with nearly 200 fantastic photographs that depict signaling history and all aspects of modern operations. Author and photographer Brian Solomon brings his wealth of knowledge and photographic talent to a subject that has not often been tackled in book form, yet is integral to the American railroad experience.