{"title":"Reducing negative influence of strong wind on normal train operations based on data mining","authors":"Rui Wang, F. Zhao, T. Shi, Yaqun Li, Y. Bao","doi":"10.1109/ICIRT.2018.8641669","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICIRT.2018.8641669","url":null,"abstract":"Cross wind has an important influence on the safety of high-speed railways. Wind monitoring or early-warning system is widely used to provide real-time monitoring information or early warning information to train dispatching system for making appropriate measures like slowing down running speed of trains or suspending of train operations. But there is trade-off between safety and train operation efficiency for train operation in windy weather. Wind data mining method was proposed in this paper to reduce negative influence of strong wind on normal train operations and improve train operation efficiency. Three main objective factors that affects train operation efficiency were optimized, including optimizing wind alarm release time, merging wind alarm restriction sections and adding wind direction into wind alarm mechanism. Real-word case study show that wind alarm release time should be set according to the wind characteristic of different lines confronted. Wind alarm restriction sections were merged by analyzing the alarms relationship generated by adjacent wind motoring points, and the merging of wind alarm restriction sections can significantly decrease the number of wind alarm times that train dispatchers’ need to handle. Wind direction has remarkable influence to train operation and need to be added into wind alarm mechanism.","PeriodicalId":202415,"journal":{"name":"2018 International Conference on Intelligent Rail Transportation (ICIRT)","volume":"40 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128233754","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Event-Driven Simulation of Consecutive Trains: An Analytic Approach for Asynchronous Railway Simulations","authors":"Merlin Becker, M. Schreckenberg","doi":"10.1109/ICIRT.2018.8641685","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICIRT.2018.8641685","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper an algorithm for the calculation of railway running times in case of event-dependant infrastructure is presented. Based on the calculation of minimum headway times, this approach enables the calculation of the headway behaviour of trains. The algorithm is presented and evaluated for intermittent and continuous automatic train control with the explicit cases of the German PZB 90 and LZB CE.","PeriodicalId":202415,"journal":{"name":"2018 International Conference on Intelligent Rail Transportation (ICIRT)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129201249","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Radio-wave Propagation in Tunnel Structures at ISM Band: A Preliminary Study","authors":"Kalyankar Shravan Kumar, Y. Lee, Y. S. Meng","doi":"10.1109/ICIRT.2018.8641553","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICIRT.2018.8641553","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents a preliminary study of radiowave propagation along tunnel & tunnel-like structures in the industrial, scientific and medical radio band (ISM band). These structures often have a rich multipath environment due to their waveguiding effect In this study, the existence of radio-wave guiding effect along tunnel-like structures was investigated with the measured power delay profiles (PDPs). The experimental results are validated with the simulation results using a ray-tracing simulator. Additionally, simulation study is further performed on different tunnel structures to analyze the variation of radio-wave propagation mechanism. The results of this study are useful to get a better understanding of complex waveguiding effect in a tunnel environment.","PeriodicalId":202415,"journal":{"name":"2018 International Conference on Intelligent Rail Transportation (ICIRT)","volume":"70 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133449038","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Analyzing and Evaluating Infrastructure Capacity of Railway Passenger Station by Mesoscopic Simulation Method","authors":"Mingxuan Zhong, Y. Yue, Deyi Li","doi":"10.1109/ICIRT.2018.8641593","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICIRT.2018.8641593","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents a novel mesoscopic simulation method for analyzing and calculating carrying capacity of railway passenger stations. Due to the random disturbances of train operations in station area, a simulation method that considers the random disturbances of train delays and operation time is proposed. In this paper, occupation time of each route and track is accumulated, and then resources exploitation rate and the carrying capacity of stations can be estimated. A new computer-aided tool was developed and successfully implemented for analyzing and evaluating the carrying capacity of railway passenger stations. The merits of the proposed method are illustrated through a case study on one of the largest integrated transport terminals in China to demonstrate the effectiveness and validation of the random probability method through calculations of each switch group exploitation rate and evaluation of the carrying capacity of this station.","PeriodicalId":202415,"journal":{"name":"2018 International Conference on Intelligent Rail Transportation (ICIRT)","volume":"79 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131650118","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Optimized Utilization of Arrival and Departure Tracks on the High - Speed Railway Station","authors":"Ran Chen, L. Meng, Weining Hao, Xuan Li","doi":"10.1109/ICIRT.2018.8641637","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICIRT.2018.8641637","url":null,"abstract":"An important characteristic of railway line for passenger traffic transportation is the punctuality of train operation. The condition of railway line for passenger traffic is significantly important to the normal transport organization of the station and influences whether the punctual operation of the train can be guaranteed or not. In order to guarantee efficient operation consistent with the train diagram, it is necessary to arrange appropriate Arrival and Departure Tracks (AD Tracks) for trains. In this paper, we build an optimized model considering the balanced use of the AD Tracks and the walk distance. The model is solved by MATLAB software based on a genetic algorithm. To demonstrate the effectiveness and efficiency of the developed model we conduct a case study based on the adapted data-set offered by Shijiazhuang High-speed Railway Station.","PeriodicalId":202415,"journal":{"name":"2018 International Conference on Intelligent Rail Transportation (ICIRT)","volume":"183 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134277133","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Yang Liu, Z. Tsakadze, H. Hoh, J. Pang, Ivan Christian, Tie Xuan Ng, Y. Ng
{"title":"Mechanical Properties and Microstructural Analysis of Rail Thermite Welding Joints","authors":"Yang Liu, Z. Tsakadze, H. Hoh, J. Pang, Ivan Christian, Tie Xuan Ng, Y. Ng","doi":"10.1109/ICIRT.2018.8641675","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICIRT.2018.8641675","url":null,"abstract":"Thermite welding is commonly applied to join running rails together and any failures related to it will result in delay or even catastrophe. In this paper, mechanical properties and microstructures of specimens extracted from plain rail and welding are analyzed to understand the potential factors affecting crack initiation and propagation in the head of rail and welding joints. It is found that there is a sharp decrease of hardness near the heat affected zone (HAZ), likely due to the rail undergoing a heat treatment such as annealing. To verify this assumption, the specimens are analyzed by optical microscope and Scanning Electron Microscope. The microstructure result shows that the region near welding can be clearly divided into four zones: Welding Metal Zone, Mixed Melted Zone, Heat Affected Zone (HAZ) and Unaffected Parent Rail with three subzones for HAZ: Coarse Grained HAZ, Fine Grained HAZ and Inter-critical HAZ based on the grain size and inter-lamellar spacing. The decrease of hardness in HAZ is due to softening because of fully annealing, partial annealing, “spheroidization” in three subzones respectively. This paper also found that the large amount of oxide inclusions in Mixed Melted Zone may cause the ease of crack initiation and propagation.","PeriodicalId":202415,"journal":{"name":"2018 International Conference on Intelligent Rail Transportation (ICIRT)","volume":"19 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134640741","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Urban Rail Transit Plus-Train Passenger Flow Analysis Method Based on Network Real-time Reachability","authors":"Rudong Yang, R. Xu, Zhiyuan Huang","doi":"10.1109/ICIRT.2018.8641597","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICIRT.2018.8641597","url":null,"abstract":"Nowadays, to meet passengers' nighttime travel needs and stimulate urban nighttime economic development, subways in some megacities extend their operation hours. In the extended operation period, some routes connecting a given origin and destination (O-D) pair become unreachable which made the transit service providers can’t use the conventional method to analysis the passenger flow of plus-train in the extended operation period. This paper proposed a methodology for calculating the passenger flow of the plus-trains based on automatic fare collection (AFC) data and realized train timetable. Considering real-time reachability of the routes which connected an O-D pair, a weighted assignment function among the remaining reachable routes is provided. Then we calculate the passenger flow of each plus-train by estimating which trains were chosen. Initial case study on Shanghai metro shows that the proposed method works well, the calculated plus-train flow and actual survey results match more than 90% which could provide reliable passenger flow data for the optimization of the network plus-train schedule.","PeriodicalId":202415,"journal":{"name":"2018 International Conference on Intelligent Rail Transportation (ICIRT)","volume":"31 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114238496","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Kangrong Li, K. See, N. Narampanawe, Arjuna Weerasinghe, V. Tong
{"title":"Condition Monitoring of Power Feeder with Multiple Parallel Cables Based on Inductive Coupling Method","authors":"Kangrong Li, K. See, N. Narampanawe, Arjuna Weerasinghe, V. Tong","doi":"10.1109/ICIRT.2018.8641583","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICIRT.2018.8641583","url":null,"abstract":"A non-intrusive method for monitoring the health condition of power feeder with parallel cables is proposed and developed. The proposed method is based on an inductive coupling technology and therefore it does not affect the normal operation of the actual electrical system and can be easily deployed on-site without any modification to the feeder structure.","PeriodicalId":202415,"journal":{"name":"2018 International Conference on Intelligent Rail Transportation (ICIRT)","volume":"76 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123238007","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Condition Monitoring of High Voltage Power Delivery Path to Train using Non-Invasive Impedance Measurement Method","authors":"N. Narampanawe, K. See, Kangrong Li, V. Tong","doi":"10.1109/ICIRT.2018.8641567","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICIRT.2018.8641567","url":null,"abstract":"Rapid transit systems are typically powered by high voltage direct current (HVDC). The HVDC power supply is fed to a train either via overhead line or third rail with respect to the running rail. The power is delivered from the power substation to the train through insulated high current carrying feeder cables. A reliable power delivery path is critical to ensure minimum downtime of the train system. This paper presents a non-invasive impedance measurement method for monitoring the health condition of the HVDC power delivery path.","PeriodicalId":202415,"journal":{"name":"2018 International Conference on Intelligent Rail Transportation (ICIRT)","volume":"79 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116002601","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Rom Uddamvathanak, Feng Yang, Xulei Yang, A. Das, Yan Shen, Mohamed Salahuddin, Shaista Hussain, S. Chawla
{"title":"Two-Stage Ensemble of Deep Convolutional Neural Networks for Object Recognition","authors":"Rom Uddamvathanak, Feng Yang, Xulei Yang, A. Das, Yan Shen, Mohamed Salahuddin, Shaista Hussain, S. Chawla","doi":"10.1109/ICIRT.2018.8641581","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICIRT.2018.8641581","url":null,"abstract":"Deep Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have been widely used for object recognition in images. However, due to the complexity in setting the structures and related parameters for deep CNNs, performance of individual CNN models may vary largely and lack robustness. In realizing this problem, this paper proposed a two-stage ensemble of deep CNNs for object recognition. To increase model diversity for ensemble, multiple basic CNN models/structures are first pre-defined. For each basic CNN model, multiple rounds of training are conducted based on sub-sampling the training dataset. In the first stage of ensemble, multiple outputs from each basic CNN model is integrated using the MinMax median. This is followed by the second stage of ensemble to combine the outputs from all basic CNN models. The proposed method was implemented and experiments were carried out on Kaggle’s ‘Statoil/CCORE Iceberg Classifier Challenge’ image data for iceberg and ship recognition, as well as on ‘Northeastern University surface defect dataset’ for surface defect classification problem. The experimental results showed that the proposed ensemble method outperformed the individual CNN models, and achieved the-state-of-the-art performance as compared to the best submission to the Kaggle’s challenge using CNNs.","PeriodicalId":202415,"journal":{"name":"2018 International Conference on Intelligent Rail Transportation (ICIRT)","volume":"142 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116325711","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}