Download or read book Evaluation of Rail Technology written by Anjum Naweed and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2017-09-01 with total page 535 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rapid advancements in train control and in-cab technologies provide significant opportunities for rail operators to improve efficiency and enhance their operations. New technologies often provide elegant solutions to existing problems or new capabilities for the operator. However, new technologies may also represent a significant form of risk. Thus, it is important to balance the potential for significant improvement with justifiable concern about how the technology may unpredictably change the nature of the work. If a technology is designed and implemented without considering the substantive human factors concerns, that technology may lead to unintended consequences that can introduce safety issues and disrupt network performance. It is important to note that even a well-designed and beneficial technology may be rejected by the users who see it as a threat to their jobs, status or working conditions. This book discusses the issues surrounding rail technology and introduces a ’toolkit’ of human factors evaluation methods. The toolkit provides a practical and operationally focused set of methods that can be used by managers considering investing in technology, staff charged with implementing a technology, and consultants engaged to assist with the design and evaluation process. This toolkit can help to ensure that new rail technologies are thoughtfully designed, effectively implemented, and well received by users so that the significant investment associated with developing rail technologies is not wasted.

Download or read book An Evaluation of Automated and Conventional Rail Technology for the Century Freeway Rail Line written by Richard Stanger and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 14 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Evaluation of signal control system equipment and technology written by United States. Federal Railroad Administration and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book An Evaluation of Railroad Safety written by United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Evaluation of Alternative Detection Technologies for Trains and Highway Vehicles at Highway Rail Intersections written by and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 2003 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Evaluation of Signal control System Equipment and Technology written by United States. Federal Railroad Administration and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Evaluation of Signal control System Equipment and Technology written by and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Review of technology for high-speed passenger trains in use in the U.S. and abroad.

Download or read book Report on the Railroad Technology Program by the Secretary of Transportation to the President the Senate and the House of Representatives written by United States. Department of Transportation and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Test and Evaluation of Rail Flaw Detection Technologies written by Greg A. Garcia and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report focuses on the RDTF, results from evaluation performed on the RDTF [Rail Defect Test Facility], and future testing of improved and future testing of imporved and new rail flaw detection technologies planned. Additionally, a history of rail flaw detection is provided and a description of typical flaws found in North America, along with information on technology currently used for rail flaw detection.

Download or read book U S Passenger Rail Technologies written by United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 1984 with total page 109 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Computers in Railways XIV written by C. A. Brebbia and published by WIT Press. This book was released on 2014-06-01 with total page 941 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book contains the 14th proceedings of the, very successful, International conference on Railway Engineering Design and Optimization (COMPRAIL 2014), which began in 1987.

Download or read book Evaluation of Alternative Detection Technologies for Trains and Highway Vehicles at Highway Rail Intersections written by U.s. Department of Transportation and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2013-12 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Under sponsorship from the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA), the Transportation Technology Center, Inc. (TTCI) and the John A. Volpe National Transportation Systems Center (Volpe Center) evaluated five technologies for their ability to detect trains and/or highway vehicles approaching and occupying highway railroad intersections (HRI). TTCI conducted tests on the performance of these technologies during October and November 1999 at the FRA's Transportation Technology Center in Pueblo, Colorado, USA.

Download or read book Railway Safety Reliability and Security Technologies and Systems Engineering written by Flammini, Francesco and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2012-05-31 with total page 487 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Human errors, as well as deliberate sabotage, pose a considerable danger to passengers riding on the modern railways and have created disastrous consequences. To protect civilians against both intentional and unintentional threats, rail transportation has become increasingly automated. Railway Safety, Reliability, and Security: Technologies and Systems Engineering provides engineering students and professionals with a collection of state-of-the-art methodological and technological notions to support the development and certification of ‘real-time safety-critical’ railway control systems, as well as the protection of rail transportation infrastructures.

Download or read book U S Passenger Rail Technologies written by and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Federal Funding of Rail Rehabilitation written by United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Computers in Railways X written by John J. Allan and published by WIT Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 1009 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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. Including papers from the Tenth International Conference on Computer System Design and Operation in the Railway and Other Transit Systems, the book will be of interest to railway management, consultants, railway engineers (including signal and control engineers), designers of advanced train control systems and computer specialists. Themes of interest include: Planning; Human Factors; Computer Techniques, Management and languages; Decision Support Systems; Systems Engineering; Electromagnetic Compatibility and Lightning; Reliability, Availability, Maintainability and Safety (RAMS); Freight; Advanced Train Control; Train Location; CCTV/Communications; Operations Quality; Timetables; Traffic Control; Global Navigation using Satellite Systems; Online Scheduling and Dispatching; Dynamics and Wheel/Rail Interface; Power Supply; Traction and Maglev; Obstacle Detection and Collision Analysis; Railway Security.

Download or read book Dedicated Mobile Communications for High speed Railway written by Zhang-Dui Zhong and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-08-14 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.