|
Books > Professional & Technical > Transport technology > Railway technology & engineering
Originating from papers presented at the 18th International
Conference on Railway Engineering Design and Operation, this book
provides up-to-date research on the use of advanced systems,
promoting their general awareness throughout the management,
design, manufacture and operation of railways and other emerging
passenger, freight and transit systems. A key emphasis is placed on
the use of computer systems in advanced railway engineering. The
included works are compiled from a variety of specialists
interested in the development of railways, including managers,
consultants, railway engineers, designers of advanced train control
systems and computer specialists. Topics covered include: Traffic
safety, security and monitoring; Train and railways analysis;
Operation of rail networks; Advanced train control;
Energy-efficient design; Traffic modelling and simulation.
Robot Systems for Rail Transit Applications presents the latest
advances in robotics and artificial intelligence for railway
systems, giving foundational principles and running through special
problems in robot systems for rail transit. State-of-the art
research in robotics and railway systems is presented alongside a
series of real-world examples. Eight chapters give definitions and
characteristics of rail transit robot systems, describe assembly
and collaborative robots in manufacturing, introduce automated
guided vehicles and autonomous rail rapid transit, demonstrate
inspection robots, cover trench robots, and explain unmanned aerial
vehicles. This book offers an integrated and highly-practical way
to approach robotics and artificial intelligence in rail-transit.
Optimization Models for Rail Car Fleet Management represents the
result of multi-year efforts to provide readers with insights into
one of the most important areas of railway transport management.
The book covers mathematical procedures for the effective and
efficient utilization of railway freight cars, developed models for
optimization methods, heterogeneity and partial substitutability of
freight cars, research and development in rail freight car fleet
management models, and the stochastic and dynamic nature of the
supply, demand and traveling time of freight cars, among other
topics.
Forming the 16th volume from this successful series, this book
contains papers from the 16th International Conference on Railway
Engineering Design and Operation. The included papers are a
collection of works from researchers, academics and practitioners
involved in railway engineering. There is a continuing need to
update the use of advanced systems, promoting their general
awareness throughout the management, design, manufacture and
operation of railways and other emerging passenger, freight and
transit systems. By emphasising the use of computer systems in
advanced railway engineering, this book contributes to this goal.
These research studies will be of interest to all those involved in
the development of railways, including managers, consultants,
railway engineers, designers of advanced train control systems and
computer specialists.
High-speed turnouts, a key technology for high-speed railways, have
a great influence on the safe and stable running of high-speed
trains. Design of High-Speed Railway Turnouts: Theory and
Applications, comprehensively introduces the technical
characteristics and requirements of high-speed turnouts, including
design theories and methods of turnout layout geometry, wheel and
rail relations, track stiffness, welded turnout, turnout
conversion, turnout components, and manufacture and laying
technologies of turnouts. Analyzing the operational problems of
China's high-speed turnout in particular, this book discusses the
control of structure irregularity, state irregularity, geometrical
irregularity and dynamic irregularity during the design,
manufacture, laying, and maintenance of turnouts. At the end of
this reference book, the author provides high-speed turnouts
management methods, maintenance standards, testing and monitoring
technology, and maintenance technology. Design of High-Speed
Railway Turnouts: Theory and Applications will enable railway
technicians all over the world to develop an in-depth knowledge of
the design, manufacture, laying, and maintenance technology of
high-speed turnouts.
The rail-based transit system is a popular public transportation
option, not just with members of the public but also with policy
makers looking to install a form of convenient and rapid travel.
Even for moving bulk freight long distances, a rail-based system is
the most sustainable transportation system currently available. The
Handbook of Research on Emerging Innovations in Rail Transportation
Engineering presents the latest research on next-generation public
transportation infrastructures. Emphasizing a diverse set of topics
related to rail-based transportation such as funding issues, policy
design, traffic planning and forecasting, and engineering
solutions, this comprehensive publication is an essential resource
for transportation planners, engineers, policymakers, and
graduate-level engineering students interested in uncovering
research-based solutions, recommendations, and examples of modern
rail transportation systems.
Data services, especially those involving multimedia applications,
can often be bandwidth intensive and accessed simultaneously by a
large number of users. As such, efforts are being made to replace
conventional network infrastructure, based on copper lines and
coaxial cables, with fiber optic networks for improved performance.
Optical Transmission and Networks for Next Generation Internet
Traffic Highways provides a broader perspective of the parameters
involved in the transmission of optical signals using optical
soliton systems, OCDM-WDM, SCM-WDM and OTDM-WDM. This timely
publication is ideal for use by technical managers, graduate
students, engineers and technicians involved in the fiber-optics
industry, and scientists working in the field of optical
communications.
This book reflects the latest research trends, methods and
experimental results in the field of electrical and information
technologies for rail transportation, which covers abundant
state-of-the-art research theories and ideas. As a vital field of
research that is highly relevant to current developments in a
number of technological domains, the subjects it covered include
intelligent computing, information processing, Communication
Technology, Automatic Control, etc. The objective of the
proceedings is to provide a major interdisciplinary forum for
researchers, engineers, academicians as well as industrial
professionals to present the most innovative research and
development in the field of rail transportation electrical and
information technologies. Engineers and researchers in academia,
industry, and the government will also explore an insight view of
the solutions that combine ideas from multiple disciplines in this
field. The volumes serve as an excellent reference work for
researchers and graduate students working on rail transportation,
electrical and information technologies.
The proceedings collect the latest research trends, methods and
experimental results in the field of electrical and information
technologies for rail transportation. The topics cover novel
traction drive technologies of rail transportation, safety
technology of rail transportation system, rail transportation
information technology, rail transportation operational management
technology, rail transportation cutting-edge theory and technology
etc. The proceedings can be a valuable reference work for
researchers and graduate students working in rail transportation,
electrical engineering and information technologies.
Railroads altered the landscape of the United States. Within a few
decades of the invention of the locomotive, railways stretched from
coast to coast, enabling people and goods to travel far greater
distances than ever before, completely altering our concept of time
and space. And while railroads may seem like an "old" technology,
they continue to be an essential means of transporting both goods
and people, and new technologies are making the railroads an
increasingly relevant resource for the 21st century. This volume in
the Greenwood Technographies series provides an accessible overview
of the nearly 200 years of the growth and development of this
historically significant--and popular --technology. The Railroad:
The Life Story of a Technology gives students and railroad
enthusiasts plenty of information on the development of this
popular technology: * Chronicles the early years of the railroad,
from early wooden tramways in Massachusetts, to the famous "Tom
Thumb" * Discusses the important technological "failures," such as
the narrow-gauge craze of the late nineteenth century with track
widths as small as two feet. * Covers all aspects of railroad
technology -- everything from the structure of the track to
communications to what powers the locomotive. * Links the
technology to broader social developments, such as the decline of
the railroad in the mid-20th century to outmoded governmental and
labor restrictions, and the current rise of railroad technology as
a result of new managerial techniques. The volume includes a
timeline of important dates in railroad history, a glossary of
important terms, and a selected bibliography of works appropriate
for further research.
The proceedings collect the latest research trends, methods and
experimental results in the field of electrical and information
technologies for rail transportation. The topics cover novel
traction drive technologies of rail transportation, safety
technology of rail transportation system, rail transportation
information technology, rail transportation operational management
technology, rail transportation cutting-edge theory and technology
etc. The proceedings can be a valuable reference work for
researchers and graduate students working in rail transportation,
electrical engineering and information technologies.
This book proposes a general methodology to introduce Global
Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) integrity, starting from a
rigorous mathematical description of the problem. It highlights the
major issues that designers need to resolve during the development
of GNSS-based systems requiring a certain level of confidence on
the position estimates. Although it follows a general approach, the
final chapters focus on the application of GNSS integrity to rail
transportation, as an example. By describing the main requirements
in the context of train position function, one of which is the safe
function of any train control system, it shows the critical issues
associated with the concept of safe position integrity. In
particular, one case study clarifies the key differences between
the avionic domain and the railway domain related to the
application of GNSS technologies, and identifies a number of
railway-signaling hazards linked with the use of such technology.
Furthermore, it describes various railway-signaling techniques to
mitigate such hazards to prepare readers for the future evolution
of train control systems, also based on the GNSS technology. This
unique book offers a valuable reference guide for engineers and
researchers in the fields of satellite navigation and rail
transportation.
The papers presented in this volume aim to update the use of
advanced systems, promoting their general awareness throughout the
management, design, manufacture and operation of railways and other
emerging passenger, freight and transit systems. The book
particularly emphasizes the use of computer systems in advanced
railway engineering.Topics covered include: Communications and
signalling; Operations quality; Energy supply and consumption;
Monitoring and maintenance; Computer simulations Planning and
policy; Operational planning; Safety and security; Rescheduling;
Timetable planning.
For much of the postwar era, French society had a contradictory
view of passenger trains, scorning them as quaint anachronisms on
the one hand, yet also fearing their economic and social impact.
All this changed with the introduction of the famed Train a Grande
Vitesse (TGV) between Paris and Lyon in the early 1980s. In vivid
detail, Meunier describes the political, economic, and social
factors that both helped and hindered the development of the
world's fastest, most technologically advanced train.
The present-day enthusiasm in France for high-speed rail travel
dates only to the successful launch of the now-famous TGV in 1981.
Until now, most published accounts of French high-speed rail have
been of a technical nature and have ignored or minimized the
historical, political, economic, and social context. Historians
have been left with detailed descriptions of locomotives and
experimental test runs, but there has been scant information
cercerning why the machines were built and why the tests were
carried out in the first place. This book is the first full-length
treatment of high-speed rail travel and the bibliography is one of
the most complete on the subject.
The former Jewel in the Crown of the British Empire, India remains,
by any measure, a major economic and political actor on the world
scene. Without her extensive railway network—completed against
all odds by her British colonial masters—it is impossible to
imagine what might have become of the diverse lands and peoples of
the subcontinent. These railway networks brought them together as a
colony; these networks fostered the nationalism that would be
Britain's downfall. This rail network both remade the physical
landscape and brought social-cultural cohesion to a diverse and
wide-ranging populace. It would be common rail travel that Gandhi
would employ to reach the masses. From its romantic mystique to its
dangerous reality, it is rail travel today that keeps vital social,
cultural, economic and political forces moving. India's railroad
history serves as a unique lens to her larger story of triumph over
adversity. By 1905, India had the world's fourth largest railway
network—a position it retains in the early 21st century. The
railroads were at the organizational and technological center of
many of the inter-related economic, political, social, cultural,
and ecological transformations that produced modern India through,
and out of, its colonial past. In addition to this vast technical
achievement, and (in keeping with the series focus), there is an
equally important and wide-sweeping human-interest tale to be told
with evocative vignettes of the triumph of the human spirit (one
billion strong!) in the face of great adversity.
This book describes the second phase of the Qinghai-Tibetan railway
construction project and is the first technological book discussing
the geological routing of the Qinghai-Tibetan railway project on
the "roof of the world." Based on practical experience of railway
construction work, it provides a substantial number of examples
with detailed descriptions and conclusions. The complex geological
environment of the Qinghai-Tibetan railway as well as the selection
and optimization of the route are illustrated vividly and clearly
with quotes, figures, photos, and tables. Connecting Golmud and
Lhasa, it has a total length of 1142 km and at the Tanggula Pass
has an altitude of 5072m-higher than any other in the world. A 960
km section is on a plateau at altitudes above 4000 m, and 550 km
are in the permafrost region, making it the world's longest and
highest railway in the permafrost plateau region. The book is a
model for the integration of theory and practice, making it a
valuable reference source for civil engineering professionals
working in geological routing in permafrost plateau regions, active
fault zones, meizoseismal areas, nature reserves, and regions with
geohazards such as steep slopes, sand and snow drifts and
geothermal hazards.
Safe and high-efficiency operation are two main issues in rail
transportation. This book focuses on these two key issues, bringing
together a wealth of research to offer theoretical and technical
support for rail operations and maintenance. In addition, it
presents a comprehensive active safety assurance system for rail
transportation, which includes the quantitative state
identification and prediction of train components; rail
transportation safety and reliability assessment methods; and rail
transportation risk assessment at the rail networks level, which
achieves the quantitative and high-precision monitoring of complex
systems in real-time. In addition, it extends active safety based
theory to safety prognostic analysis in the traffic system. Lastly,
representative case studies verify that the theory is suitable for
the actual traffic system.
This book on the dynamics of rail vehicles is developed from the
manuscripts for a class with the same name at TU Berlin. It is
directed mainly to master students with pre-knowledge in
mathematics and mechanics and engineers that want to learn more.
The important phenomena of the running behaviour of rail vehicles
are derived and explained. Also recent research results and
experience from the operation of rail vehicles are included. One
focus is the description of the complex wheel-rail contact
phenomena that are essential to understand the concept of running
stability and curving. A reader should in the end be able to
understand the background of simulation tools that are used by the
railway industry and universities today.
This outstanding thesis characterises the aerodynamic flow around a
container freight train; investigating how changing container
loading configurations affect the magnitude of aerodynamic forces
measured on a container. 1/25th scale moving-model freight train
experiments were carried out at the University of Birmingham's
TRAIN rig facility to investigate slipstream velocities and static
pressure, as well as measuring, using a specifically designed
on-board pressure monitoring system, the aerodynamic loads on
containers. Results were compared with full scale data and assessed
in terms European standards for trackside worker and passenger
safety limits. Rail vehicle aerodynamic studies have tended to
previously focus on high speed passenger trains in line with
increases in train speed. The research presented within this thesis
highlights the issues associated with the aerodynamic development
around a freight train, providing the foundations for further
research and a basis from which to develop international safety
standards in relation to freight, as well as high speed trains.
This book addresses the fundamental theory and key technologies of
narrowband and broadband mobile communication systems specifically
for railways. It describes novel relaying schemes that meet the
different design criteria for railways and discusses the
applications of signal classification techniques as well as offline
resource scheduling as a way of advancing rail practice. Further,
it introduces Novel Long Term Evolution for Railway (LTE-R) network
architecture, the Quality of Service (QoS) requirement of LTE-R and
its performance evaluation and discusses in detail security
technologies for rail-dedicated mobile communication systems. The
advanced research findings presented in the book are all based on
high-speed railway measurement data, which offer insights into the
propagation mechanisms and corresponding modeling theory and
approaches in unique railway scenarios.It is a valuable resource
for researchers, engineers and graduate students in the fields of
rail traffic systems, telecommunication and information systems.
|
|