
Computers in Railways VI
WIT Press
Published on 11. August 1998
Book
Hardback
1120 pages
978-1-85312-598-0 (ISBN)
Description
Computers are now being used in every facet of railway activity from initial feasibility studies to the actual construction of the track and rolling stock, and the ultimate operation of the network. Following the success of the five previous international conferences on Computer Aided Design, Manufacture and Operation in the Railway and other Advanced Mass Transit Systems, the sixth meeting in the series was convened in Lisbon, Portugal in September 1998. Its purpose was to report on progress in the use of computer-based techniques within the railway industry and other advanced passenger and freight transit systems and to promote a general awareness of these. Describing how planners, designers, manufacturers and operators can benefit from the latest developments in this area of information technology this book contains the proceedings of the sixth conference.
Both underlying technology and environmental issues are covered and topics are divided under the following headings: Infrastructure; Safety Critical Systems, Planning, Systems Engineering and EMC; Scheduling and Freight Distribution; Vehicle Dynamics and Fatigue; Power Supply and Traction; Traffic Control; Maintenance; Ticketing; Multi-Train Simulator; Pantograph/Catenary; Human Interface and Decision Support; Block Signalling and Interlocking and ATC and Signalling Equipment.
Both underlying technology and environmental issues are covered and topics are divided under the following headings: Infrastructure; Safety Critical Systems, Planning, Systems Engineering and EMC; Scheduling and Freight Distribution; Vehicle Dynamics and Fatigue; Power Supply and Traction; Traffic Control; Maintenance; Ticketing; Multi-Train Simulator; Pantograph/Catenary; Human Interface and Decision Support; Block Signalling and Interlocking and ATC and Signalling Equipment.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Southampton
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 230 mm
Width: 155 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-85312-598-0 (9781853125980)
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Content
SECTION 1: INFRASTRUCTURE Geodetic surveying of railway objects; Rail head and wheel profile geometry measurement; Software for railway track irregularity correction using heavy tamping machine; Optimisation of length of transition curves with vehicle reaction taken into consideration; In-vehicle application of the RECTIF system for curve alignment optimization; Computer aided railway engineering. SECTION 2: SAFETY CRITICAL SYSTEMS Safety assessment of Copenhagen driverless automatic mass transit system; Falls on track detection in public transport by artificial vision; Obstacle detection in front of automatic trains by linear stereo vision; Use of computer databases to manipulate safety information; Developing standards for new technology signal systems for rail transit applications; Using formal methods for quality assurance of interlocking systems; Safety case production; The role of independent safety assessment in managing project risks for new or modified programmable electronic systems for railways. SECTION 3: PLANNING Use of computers in planning and execution of infrastructure investment; The impact of passenger capacity analysis on station design; The TDG application: an highly interactive tool for railway timetable planning and traffic monitoring; The GCOSTTM Model for demand estimation; Railway line capacity planning support model; Application of computer simulation to rail capacity planning. SECTION 4: SYSTEMS ENGINEERING AND EMC Towards a complete systems engineering environment; The application of systems engineering tools on London Underground; System engineering approach for London Underground: Year 2000 compliance; A systems approach to solve the locomotive and signalling EMC problem; Systems engineering and systems integration the West Rail approach. SECTION 5: SCHEDULING AND FREIGHT CAR DISTRIBUTION Systems integration and organisational choice; Crew operation scheduling based on simulated evolution technique; CREWS: a train scheduling tool; Improving the Dutch railway services by network-wide timetable simulation; DYNAMIS: a model for the calculation of running times for an efficient time-table construction; Ad-hoc planning of timetables for accidents or maintenance sites; Development of intelligent crew roster management system; The max-plus algebra approach to railway timetable design; Designing container yard management systems; Empty freight car distribution at Swedish State Railways; Investigation of shunt operation performance of jointless track circuits using a specialised track circuit computer simulation tool. SECTION 6: VEHICLE DYNAMICS AND FATIGUE Shape optimization analysis for corrugated wheels; Simulation of severe wheel-rail wear; Simulation of acoustical properties of rail cars. SECTION 7: POWER SUPPLY AND TRACTION A study to estimate effective coefficient of regenerative energy in electric railway; TTS/SIMON Power Log a simulation tool evaluating electrical train power supply systems; The result of simulation on response of a pole with a string applied at the top end to vibrational force applied to its base; Mechatronic engineering as one facet of CAPE; Simulation and analysis of current distribution on DC electric multiple-units with bus line; Evaluation of power feeding systems for regenerative trains; Computer aided design tool for the study of electric traction fixed installations and train operation; Short circuit analysis for traction power supply system of new concept guided busway; Statistical and probalistic methods applied to dc traction system supply. SECTION 8: TRAFFIC CONTROL Delay analysis for train operation; Simulation of the operation of personal rapid transit systems; Malmbanan traffic simulations: investments and capacity allocation; An analytical model for the calculation of the capacity of lines, junctions and station tracks; Results of the implementation of an optimal control system in an integrated control centre for metro lines; Computer-aided methods for railway operation conflict solving; An optimal traffic regulation method for metro type railways based on passenger oriented traffic evaluation; An evaluation of algorithms and systems for Computer-Aided Train Dispatching; Constraint programming for real-time train circulation management problems in railway nodes; State of the art computer application to railway traffic control and automation; Centralised traffic control centres; Automatic conflict detection and advanced decision support for optimal usage of railway infrastructure: purpose and concepts; Locomotive asset management: integration of GPS, mobile telemetry and GIS technologies; Modelling and simulation of the European Train Control System for test case generation; Modelling and simulation of the European Train Control Satellite based locating for guided traffic; A model for schedule optimisation in an intercity transport system. SECTION 9: MAINTENANCE Computerisation of rail vehicles maintenance systems; Computer aided maintenance systems for railway applications; Communications and control system for fleet maintenance management of the DBAG locomotive BR101; Remote control monitoring into the next millennium; Designing a maintenance tool for high-speed signalling; ECOTRACK: a tool for track maintenance and renewal managers; Electronic interlocking maintenance using modern computers. SECTION 10: TICKETING Contactless smart card AFC trials in East Japan Railway; The concept and a trial operation of multipurpose electronic ticket in Japan. SECTION 11: MULTI TRAIN SIMULATORS Hybrid Petri nets as a new formalism for modelling railway systems; A multi-train movement simulator with moving block signalling; A train operating method with real-time adaptability to performance variations of rolling stock; Experimental validation of propagation models for radiocommunications applications in industrial environments. SECTION 12: PANTOGRAPH AND CATENARY PANDA: a friendly CAD tool for pantograph design and testing; Virtual acquisition system for experimentation in 'Pantograph-Catenary Interaction'; Preliminary field testing of a servoactuated pantograph; High speed railways: pantograph and overhead line modelling and simulation; Computerised systems for catenary geometry assessment; Dynamic behaviour of pantographs due to different wear situations; Modelling of electromagnetic emission from catenary-pantograph sliding contact; Arcing in AC rilways: a mathematical approach. SECTION 13: HUMAN INTERFACE AND DECISION SUPPORT Automatic conflict detection and advanced decision support for optimal usage of railway infrastructure: prototyping and test results; Information and knowledge valuable assets used for train operation and control; Improving interface usability for train dispatchers in future traffic control systems; Train routing planning MMI and relationship with DSS algorithms; Consequence analysis of human unreliability during railway traffic control; Techniques for human performance analysis in railway applications; Workplace analysis and business process re-engineering: railway control centres. SECTION 14: BLOCK SIGNALLING AND INTERLOCKING Theoretical analysis of block carrying capacity under moving autoblock system; Absolute distance braking and relative distance braking train operation control modes in moving block systems; Safety, availability and capacity of electronic interlocking; Analysis of minimum train headway on a moving block system by a genetic algorithm. SECTION 15: ATC AND SIGNALLING EQUIPMENT Fault detection and isolation in a multisensor train navigation system; Development of low cost, on-board ATS-P technology at the East Japan Railway Company; Study on automatic train protection system for speed-raised main lines of Chinese Railway; ATACS: first phase control system and its experimental test results; Intelligent signalling system using train information; A new approach to model signalling systems on railway network; COSMOS (Computerised safety, maintenance and operation system of the Shinkansen)