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Computers in Railways: v. 10 Computer System Design and Operation in the Railway and Other Transit Systems(No. 88 WIT Transactions on the Built Environment)

Computers in Railways: v. 10 Computer System Design and Operation in the Railway and Other Transit Systems(No. 88 WIT Transactions on the Built Environment)

          
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Containing papers presented at COMPRAIL 2006, this book represents the latest research, development and application of computers to the management, design, manufacture and operations of railways and other passenger, freight and transit systems. The conference attracted a large number of papers, divided into the following sections: Planning; Safety; Passenger interface systems; Decision support systems; Computer techniques; Converting metros to driverless operation; Advanced train control; Train location; Dynamic train regulation; Timetable planning; Operations quality; Communications; Energy management; Power supply; Dynamics and wheel/rail interface; Freight; and Condition monitoring. 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. It will be of interest to railway managers, consultants, railway engineers (including signal and control engineers), designers of advanced train control systems and computer specialists.

Table of Contents:
Section 1: Planning Choices between stairs, escalators and ramps in stations; How is the business case used by stakeholders for making project decisions with PFI/PPP projects?; A bilevel model for optimizing station locations along a rail transit line; Design and implementation of virtual environments for planning and building sustainable railway transit systems; The network effects of railway investments; Modelling and simulation of the traffic management in a migration phase: example of "Ligne 1" of the Parisian subway; Computer based ex-ante evaluation of the planned railway line between Copenhagen and Ringsted by use of a Decision Support System named COSIMA-DSS; Assessing rail transport network performance and reliability; A study on a mathematical model of the track maintenance scheduling problem; Statistical method for the evaluation of railway system modifications; Prioritized Rail Corridor Asset Management Section 2: Safety An assessment of hazard probability due to Pentium processor errata in automatic train control applications; Role of supervision systems in railway safety; Automatic train controller safety simulation; Common approach for supervising the railway safety performance; Potential dangerous object detection on railway ballast using digital image processing; Thermal characteristics of novel brake friction materials for light rail transit applications Section 3: Passenger interface systems A fast method for estimating railway passenger flow; Route-choice support system for passengers in the face of unexpected disturbance of train operations; A new delay forecasting system for the Passenger Information Control system (PIC) of the Tokaido-Sanyo Shinkansen Section 4: Decision support systems Reconstruction of train trajectories from track occupation data to determine the effects of a Driver Information System; A decision support system for track maintenance; The new Shinkansen rescheduling system for drivers and crew; A Decision Support System for railway timetabling (MOM): the Spanish case; Measurement of train driver's brain activity by functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS); Methodology for the LCC-Analysis and the optimal migration of the railway operations control on the example of ETCS; Application of location detection system using active type RFID tags to railways; A survey on SNCF decision support system tools to supervise and to pilot train traffic in operation Section 5: Computer techniques Distributed constraint satisfaction problems to model railway scheduling problems; Blocking time reduction for level crossings using the genetic algorithm; Modeling a distributed railway interlocking system with object-oriented Petri nets; Using UML diagrams for system safety and security environment analysis; System-independent and quality tested availability of railway data across country and system borders by the model driven approach; Formalisation and simulation of operating rules using coloured Petri nets; From UML to B - a level crossing case study Section 6: Converting metros to driverless operation (special section organised by A. F. Rumsey) The feasibility case for converting existing heavy metro systems to driverless operation; Converting existing service to fully automatic operation; Re-signaling the Paris Line 1: from driver based to driverless operation; Application of communication based Moving Block systems on existing metro lines; Driverless CBTC - specific requirements for CBTC systems to overcome operation challenges Section 7: Advanced train control CBTC (Communication Based Train Control): system and development; An algorithm for braking curve calculations in ERTMS train protection systems; ICONIS: the window for URBALIS controlled automatic METRO; Automatic train operation system for the high speed Shinkansen train Section 8: Train location Design of experiment for the validation of ATP/ATC odometry algorithms; Location in railway traffic: generation of a digital map for secure applications; Train position detecting system using radio millimeter-waves Section 9: Dynamic train regulation Optimal train control at a junction in the main line rail network using a new object-oriented signalling system model; Optimising train priorities to support the regulation of train services with the assistance of active and deductive databases; Simulation of traffic management with FRISO; Influences of station length and inter-station distance on delays and delay propagation on single-track lines with regional rail traffic; Simulation of disturbances and modelling of expected train passenger delays; Running time re-optimization during real-time timetable perturbations; ALFa - a software tool for optimal scheduling of demand oriented train services; An algorithm for train rescheduling using rescheduling pattern description language R Section 10: Timetable planning State-of-the-art of railway operations research; Timetable management and operational simulation: methodology and perspectives; The contribution of state resources in a constraint-based scheduling model for conflict solving at railway junctions; A new idea for train scheduling using ant colony optimization; Joint design standard for running times, dwell times and headway times; RTCSIM: an innovative, extendable computation engine for timetable validation; Evaluating stochastic train process time distribution models on the basis of empirical detection data Section 11: Operations quality Practical use of the UIC 406 capacity leaflet by including timetable tools in the investigations; A method to estimate passenger flow with stored data at ticket gates; Analysis and optimisation of railway nodes using simulation techniques Section 12: Communications Model checker for railway signalling communication protocol; A new ground-to-train communication system using free-space optics technology; Communications security concerns in communications based train control; Ethernet-based network with high reliability for railway signaling systems Section 13: Energy management Information system for railway energy management; Impact of train model variables on simulated energy usage and journey time Section 14: Power supply Investigation into the computational techniques of power system modelling for a DC railway; Catenary and autotransformer coupled optimization for 2x25kV systems planning; A study of capacity calculation of regenerative inverter for 1500V DC traction system; Train operation minimizing energy consumption in DC electric railway with on-board energy storage device; Calculations and measurements of harmonic current distributions in the catenary of railways with single-phase A.C.; A numerical algorithm for run-curve optimization of trains considering a DC feeding circuit; Railway modelling for power quality analysis; A mixed AC/DC model for railway power systems; A user interface for the representation of the dynamic results on the pantograph-catenary interactions Section 15: Dynamics and wheel/rail interface Dynamic identification of a 1:5 scaled railway bogie on roller rig; On enhanced tilt strategies for tilting trains; Railway car dynamic response to track transition curve and single standard turnout; Optimization of special freight wagons with small wheel diameter; Design and simulation of railway vehicles braking operation using a scaled roller-rig; Study on vertical dynamic vehicle-track interactions using the TRADYS test facility and computer simulation; The study of design on the urban track transportation vibration prevention: floating slab track in the bored tunnel at Taipei Section 16: Freight Effect of the distribution of the arrivals and of the intermodal unit sizes on the transit time through freight terminals; COMPAT: a decision support tool for determining the necessity of rail infrastructure; A cost effective solution to manage rail cargo fleets: the final assessment of the F-MAN project Section 17: Condition monitoring Methodology for the monitoring, control and warning of defects for preventive maintenance of rails; Onboard measurement method for signaling equipment on Probe Trains; Fault detection of railway track by multi-resolution analysis; Research on the onboard auto-test system for track circuit compensating capacitors; Monitoring wheel defects on a metro line: system description, analysis and results


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781845641771
  • Publisher: WIT Press
  • Publisher Imprint: WIT Press
  • Height: 230 mm
  • No of Pages: 1010
  • Series Title: No. 88 WIT Transactions on the Built Environment
  • Sub Title: v. 10 Computer System Design and Operation in the Railway and Other Transit Systems
  • Width: 155 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1845641779
  • Publisher Date: 27 Jun 2006
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Spine Width: 52 mm
  • Weight: 1576 gr


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