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1 online resource |
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WIT transactions on the built environment ; volume 181, 2018 |
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WIT transactions on the built environment ; v. 181.
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| Contents |
Cover -- Computers in Railways XVI: Railway Engineering Design and Operation -- Copyright Page -- Preface -- Contents -- Section 1: Energy supply and consumption -- Enhanced efficiency in railway driving: development of ECOS (Energy Consumption Optimization Software) tool -- Transient stability of a rotary frequency converter fed railway interconnected with a parallel low frequency High Voltage Transmission system -- Current estimation method at the time of a contact-wire breakage during standstill below insulated overlap based on contact-wire necking length -- An improved power supply system for neutral sections in railway electric power systems -- Adjustment of the charge-discharge parameters of a stationary energy storage system for DC electric railways using PI control -- Research on underground tunnel intelligent lighting control technology for energy saving railway system -- Section 2: Advanced train control -- Multiple PR controller-based method for suppressing the resonance oscillation of traction networks using the auxiliary converter of an electric locomotive -- A novel control method to prevent regenerative braking failure and minimize loss of system based on supercapacitor series connected to the traction inverter -- The clamp force control of train electro-mechanical brake device on self-adaptation control -- Common mode voltage suppression method based on model predictive control for a permanent magnet synchronous motor considering current error limit -- Collaborative optimization of management strategy with energy interaction and sizing for the tram's hybrid storage system -- Ultra-high frequency train operation using the soft coupling technique: headway evaluations -- Section 3: Computer simulations -- A design strategy on the Talbot Type Articulation of a freight wagon -- Proposal for a railway layer model |
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Validation of numerical simulation using 3D-discrete element ballasted track model -- Rule-directed safety validation of SSI-based interlocking application data models -- Passenger flow analysis in railway transit station by potential pathline method -- TRENISSIMO: improving the microscopic simulation of railway networks -- Section 4: Intelligent railway systems -- Use of ontology for data integration in a degraded mode signalling system -- Reservation-compulsory commuting railways: innovation that will be made possible by UCRT/IPASS -- Operational scenario of CoBoT for escort of the mobility handicapped at railway stations -- Section 5: Monitoring and maintenance -- Contribution to the modification of input data of subgrade structure dimensioning for non-traffic load according to the ŽSR methodology -- Development of a dynamic track measuring device for gauge and twist to reduce derailment accidents -- Restoration of actual track geometry using data measured by an inertial trolley -- Section 6: Operational planning -- Recent restoration of skip-stop operation in the Korean urban railway -- Train traffic simulation algorithm based on historical train traffic records -- Section 7: Operations quality -- Optimization of speed changes and its effects on running time and capacity -- The impact of buffer time distributions on the nominal capacity of railway lines -- Section 8: Railway vehicle dynamics -- Curving performance simulation of bogie angle linked steering truck -- Suppression of vertical vibration in railway vehicle carbodies through control of damping force in primary suspension: presentation of results from running tests with meter-gauge car on a secondary line -- Section 9: Risk management -- The weakest link of a chain determines its strength: valuing the passenger risk of missed transfers |
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The concept of "Risk Ranking -- Prioritisation Matrix" method and its application for prioritisation of the non-compliance rail ultrasonic testing tracks -- Section 10: Safety and security -- A new interactive railway virtual simulator for testing preventive safety -- Experimental study on the effect of cross-sectional area ratio between tunnel and shaft on plug-holing phenomena in shallow underground tunnels -- Measures for ensuring the safety and security of automated operation of public transportation in Japan -- Improving safety by integrating dysfunctional analysis into the design of railway systems -- Introducing automatic ultrasonic inspection technology to welded rails on a flexible floating railway bridge -- Section 11: Timetable planning and rescheduling -- Train rescheduling generation considering rolling stock types and closed-off areas -- Random delays forming in the dense train flow -- Analysis of temporal factors influencing minimum dwell time distributions -- Section 12: Track design and maintenance -- Noise reduction for ballasted tracks: a socio-economic assessment -- Optimisation of concrete sleeper design for heavy haul operated railway track by non-linear finite element and empirical studies -- Development of metal rubber pads for high speed railways -- Comparison of conventional and acoustic impact echo tests for detecting a cavity underneath a concrete slab track -- Non-linear soil behavior on freight vs passenger lines -- Section 13: Train control systems -- Methods for introducing a new interlocking system in Omiya station, Japan -- Formal modeling and data validation of general railway interlocking system -- Section 14: Freight transport -- An investigation into the benefits and constraints of shifting freight traffic from roads onto high-speed railways -- Section 15: Rail freight transport and logistics |
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NGT CARGO -- concept for a high-speed freight train in Europe -- Author index |
| Summary |
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 |
| Notes |
"The papers contained in this Volume are a selection of those presented at the Conference on Railway Engineering, Design and Operation (COMPRAIL/18) which took place in Lisbon, organised by the Wessex Institute"--Preface |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, Nov. 16, 2018) |
| Subject |
Railroad engineering -- Data processing -- Congresses
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TRANSPORTATION -- Railroads -- Pictorial.
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Railroad engineering -- Data processing
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| Genre/Form |
Conference papers and proceedings
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Passerini, G., editor
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Wessex Institute of Technology, host institute.
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| ISBN |
9781784662868 |
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1784662860 |
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