Author : United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment
Publisher :
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 40,1 MB
Release : 1976
Category : High speed ground transportation
ISBN :
Author : Philip G. Howlett
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 41,20 MB
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 1447130847
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.
Author : United States. Interstate Commerce Commission
Publisher :
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 28,43 MB
Release : 1936
Category :
ISBN :
Author : United States. Interstate Commerce Commission. Block signal and train control board
Publisher :
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 34,92 MB
Release : 1911
Category : Railroads
ISBN :
Author : Tom Parkinson
Publisher : Transportation Research Board
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 44,36 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 9780309057189
Investigates and quantifies the variables that affect the maximum passenger carrying capacity of rail transit in four categories-- rail rapid transit (heavy rail), light rail transit, commuter rail, and automated guideway transit (AGT)--in North America.
Author : F. Richard Yu
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 43,99 MB
Release : 2015-11-05
Category : Computers
ISBN : 1482257459
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
Author : Association of American Railroads. Committee on Automatic Train Control
Publisher :
Page : 1110 pages
File Size : 29,88 MB
Release :
Category : Railroads
ISBN :
Author : Mark Aldrich
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 492 pages
File Size : 28,87 MB
Release : 2006-04-10
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780801882364
"The evolution of railroad safety, Aldrich argues, involved the interplay of market forces, science and technology, and legal and public pressures. He considers the railroad as a system in its entirety: operational realities, technical constraints, economic history, internal politics, and labor management. Aldrich shows that economics initially encouraged American carriers to build and operate cheap and dangerous lines. Only over time did the trade-off between safety and output - shaped by labor markets and public policy - motivate carriers to develop technological improvements that enhanced both productivity and safety."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : John J. Allan
Publisher : WIT Press
Page : 1009 pages
File Size : 37,32 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 1845641779
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.
Author : Walter Mason Camp
Publisher :
Page : 66 pages
File Size : 39,51 MB
Release : 1920
Category : Railroad accidents
ISBN :
