{"title":"Automatic train protection system depending on data oriented control method","authors":"K. Takesai, H. Nakamura","doi":"10.1109/RRCON.1993.292963","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/RRCON.1993.292963","url":null,"abstract":"The ATS-SP system (automatic train stop system based on the ATS-S type automatic warning system (AWS) with checking limit speed pattern) is proposed as an upgraded railway signaling system. It is based on the data-oriented control method (DOME) to achieve sophisticated train control. The need for DOME is discussed, and two other conventional methods, the speed indication and the distance indication methods, are described. The application of DOME for two kinds of conventional signaling systems, the speed indicating cab-signal system and the conventional AWS system, is explained. The features of the ATS-S type automatic warning system are explained.<<ETX>>","PeriodicalId":302168,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 1993 IEEE/ASME Joint Railroad Conference","volume":"885 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1993-04-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127764764","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":"Considerations in the specification of AC propulsion equipment for passenger vehicles","authors":"L.W. McSparran","doi":"10.1109/RRCON.1993.292958","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/RRCON.1993.292958","url":null,"abstract":"Details relative to the specification of state-of-the-art inverter railway propulsion systems and associated AC induction motors are reported, emphasizing the areas which will tend to optimize the utilization of the equipment while minimizing weight and size. Motoring and braking performance of a state-of-the-art transit vehicle propulsion inverter is presented. The impact of wheel diameter wear tolerances on motor current balance and adhesion is described. The selection of substation voltage is discussed in terms of energy recuperation from the AC propulsion system while in the electric braking mode. Finally, some of the issues relative to the selection of a track signaling system that is electromagnetically best suited for use with the AC propelled vehicles are considered.<<ETX>>","PeriodicalId":302168,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 1993 IEEE/ASME Joint Railroad Conference","volume":"13 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1993-04-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132258514","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":"Dynamic simulation of wheel-rail interaction for locomotive traction studies","authors":"S. Senini, F. Flinders, W. Oghanna","doi":"10.1109/RRCON.1993.292967","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/RRCON.1993.292967","url":null,"abstract":"When investigating the application of a control strategy or technique to a traction motor for locomotive applications, the dynamics of the interaction between the wheel and the rail must be considered. This includes wheel slip/spin effects and the effects of different wheel diameters on the loading of the motors. These effects are governed by a complex interaction between the motor, its controller and wheel-rail adhesion characteristics. This work presents a dynamic model of the wheel-rail adhesion characteristics which may be expanded to simulate a multi-three phase motor driven locomotive. The model is capable of showing wheel slip effects and the effects of variations in wheel diameters on the motors. Simulations were performed on the dynamic systems simulator, SIMULINK and the results are given for several simplified cases.<<ETX>>","PeriodicalId":302168,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 1993 IEEE/ASME Joint Railroad Conference","volume":"40 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1993-04-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114804898","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":"A user-friendly simulator for modelling audio frequency track circuit operation","authors":"R. Hill, P. C. Coles","doi":"10.1109/RRCON.1993.292960","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/RRCON.1993.292960","url":null,"abstract":"A simulator based on a professional circuit simulation package intended for the study of railway track circuits is described. The simulator facilities include user-friendly input and output, a hierarchical block structure for the simulation model and an accurate representation of the rail track. The simulation objectives are the design and site adjustment of track circuits and assessment of the effects of electromagnetic interference on track circuit operation. The authors describe how the simulator is verified and give an example simulation showing the effects of track parameter variations on track circuit receiver normal operating conditions.<<ETX>>","PeriodicalId":302168,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 1993 IEEE/ASME Joint Railroad Conference","volume":"19 8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1993-04-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126303292","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":"Mixed electrical and mechanical simulations using dynamic systems analysis packages","authors":"F. Flinders, S. Senini, W. Oghanna","doi":"10.1109/RRCON.1993.292959","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/RRCON.1993.292959","url":null,"abstract":"The authors describe how a structure for the routine simulation of power electronic circuits using dynamic systems analysis software has been successfully developed. This structure can be used to simulate power electronic converters along side electromechanical plant and complex control systems. These techniques in combination with the \"SIMULINK\" software package provide the design engineer with a powerful simulation tool. Entire electromechanical systems such as railway locomotives can be easily simulated. Interaction between system components, which are often complex and difficult to analyse, can be easily studied. A simulation of a DC motor drive supplied from a single phase source is implemented. This simple but illustrative example indicates the large potential of the presented technique.<<ETX>>","PeriodicalId":302168,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 1993 IEEE/ASME Joint Railroad Conference","volume":"4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1993-04-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127772707","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":"An analytic solution of the choppers ripple currents","authors":"D. Kostić, Z. Bojkovic","doi":"10.1109/RRCON.1993.292957","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/RRCON.1993.292957","url":null,"abstract":"The authors show that the combined application of Fourier and complex analysis results in the analytic solution of the chopper ripple current as a function of circuit and control parameters. It is shown how the squared RMS of the chopper ripple currents can be derived, and some practical cases are analyzed. The analysis is performed using a three-phase chopper. The method is experimentally verified on model chopper drives with the DC motor as a load.<<ETX>>","PeriodicalId":302168,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 1993 IEEE/ASME Joint Railroad Conference","volume":"215 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1993-04-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133940823","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":"Crashworthiness design of HSGGT vehicles","authors":"R. Galganski","doi":"10.1109/RRCON.1993.292954","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/RRCON.1993.292954","url":null,"abstract":"A broad overview of the crash safety issues and general physical principles involved in the design of high-speed guided-ground transportation (HSGGT) vehicles is presented. Some of the recommendations made for improved occupant protection are extrapolated from observations and results contained in the extensive crashworthiness research and development experimental database for automobiles, light trucks and buses. This approach is necessary because there are virtually no experimental data extant which provide a quantitative measure of rail vehicle and rail vehicle occupant collision response (e.g., electronically recorded vehicle acceleration-time histories and force-deflection characteristics, high-speed films of vehicle and dummy kinematics, recorded and/or calculated occupant injury parameters, etc.).<<ETX>>","PeriodicalId":302168,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 1993 IEEE/ASME Joint Railroad Conference","volume":"37 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1993-04-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134130003","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":"The natural gas locomotive project on Burlington Northern Railroad","authors":"S. Ditmeyer","doi":"10.1109/RRCON.1993.292966","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/RRCON.1993.292966","url":null,"abstract":"Burlington Northern Railroad (BN) has undertaken extensive safety measures and studies to ensure that the concept of a natural gas powered locomotive, its implementation, and operation are safe. BN has trained maintenance personnel and train crews in safe operation and briefed local emergency response teams in the safe handling of refrigerated liquid methane. These issues are discussed here. BN concludes that the equipment that has been developed is both reliable and safe. The current test program confirms safety projections as well as quantifies the benefits. BN believes that natural gas fueled locomotives have the potential to make BN far more competitive in the transportation marketplace.<<ETX>>","PeriodicalId":302168,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 1993 IEEE/ASME Joint Railroad Conference","volume":"2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1993-04-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125415819","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":"Recent advancements in buff and draft testing techniques","authors":"M. El-Sibaie","doi":"10.1109/RRCON.1993.292955","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/RRCON.1993.292955","url":null,"abstract":"A new method for evaluating the curving stability of any freight railway car under buff and draft conditions is described. A special test vehicle was designed and constructed by the Association of American Railroads (AAR) for the purpose of applying controlled levels of lateral load at the coupler pin of any adjacent car and while in motion. This test vehicle is used in determining the maximum lateral coupler load that can be safely applied to any candidate car under various curving and speed conditions. Analytical methods are also developed for predicting the coupler angles and forces generated under any given buff or draft conditions, track curvature, and coupling arrangements. The proposed method combines testing with analysis in order to determine the level of buff or draft force at which the lateral coupler load test limits are exceeded. As an example for the method, the developed techniques are used to examine the curving performance of a standard 89-ft flatcar when coupled to another relatively short 2-axle flatcar. The results indicate that the coupling of the two cars reduces the curving stability of the long flatcar under realizable buff and draft conditions.<<ETX>>","PeriodicalId":302168,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 1993 IEEE/ASME Joint Railroad Conference","volume":"27 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1993-04-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129525103","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":"Auto-carrying HSGT systems: a strategic option for increasing HSGT ridership and benefits","authors":"E. Morlok","doi":"10.1109/RRCON.1993.292952","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/RRCON.1993.292952","url":null,"abstract":"The ridership and external benefits that can be reliably estimated for high speed ground transportation (HSGT) systems proposed for the US are simply too small to readily justify investment, as the difficulty in convincing governments and the private sector to initiate construction indicates. There is no fundamental problem with the HSGT technologies, but rather it is with the market for the service being too small-essentially an air travel market. To expand the market, and hence benefits, the transportation function of HSGT systems must be changed, so they serve the much larger markets of intercity travel dominated by motorists. An HSGT system designed to achieve this, by carrying autos with passenger-occupants, is sketched, and questions related to its feasibility are addressed. Such service would be far more suited to US travel patterns and lifestyles, and it would be compatible with offering of conventional passengers-in-HSGT-passenger-car service on the same lines. Synergistic aspects of such a system with intelligent vehicle/highway systems (IVHS) are discussed.<<ETX>>","PeriodicalId":302168,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 1993 IEEE/ASME Joint Railroad Conference","volume":"61 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1993-04-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121267322","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}