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Preliminary Sensitivity Analysis of System Response to Conventional Retarder Operation

CITE Title : Preliminary Sensitivity Analysis of System Response to Conventional Retarder Operation Creator(s) : Stock, William A Corporate Creator(s) : SRI International Published Date : 1978-11-06 Report Number : Informal Note 3 URL : /view/dot/75836 "Preliminary Sensitivity Analysis of" (1978). "Preliminary Sensitivity Analysis of System Response to Conventional Retarder Operation" (1978) "Preliminary Sensitivity Analysis of System Response to Conventional Retarder Operation" , 1978 Export RIS Citation Information.

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Stock, William A

1978-11-06

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This note documents a simple sensitivity analysis showing system response, as measured by distance headway, as a function of rolling resistance. Inclu...
Can We Study Cars with V2 Rolling Resistance Terms?

CITE Title : Can We Study Cars with V2 Rolling Resistance Terms? Creator(s) : Wong, Peter J Corporate Creator(s) : SRI International Published Date : 1979-02-01 URL : /view/dot/78150 "Can We Study Cars" (1979). "Can We Study Cars with V2 Rolling Resistance Terms?" (1979) "Can We Study Cars with V2 Rolling Resistance Terms?" , 1979 Export RIS Citation Information.

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Wong, Peter J

1979-02-01

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Because the rolling behavior of a car with a V2 term is described by a non-linear differential equation, it had been assumed that no closed-form solut...
An Advanced Retarder Control Algorithm: Preliminary Concept Design III

CITE Title : An Advanced Retarder Control Algorithm: Preliminary Concept Design III Creator(s) : Wong, Peter J Corporate Creator(s) : SRI International Published Date : 1979-01-23 Report Number : Informal Note #9 URL : /view/dot/77642 "An Advanced Retarder Control" (1979). "An Advanced Retarder Control Algorithm: Preliminary Concept Design III" (1979) "An Advanced Retarder Control Algorithm: Preliminary Concept Design III" , 1979 Export RIS Citation Information.

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Wong, Peter J

1979-01-23

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Herein we implement an approximate headway control algorithm similar to that outlined in Note 6, using some of the energy formulas described in Note 7...
Preliminary Thoughts on Simulating the Operational Logic of a Conventional Retarder System Using Profile

CITE Title : Preliminary Thoughts on Simulating the Operational Logic of a Conventional Retarder System Using Profile Corporate Creator(s) : SRI International Published Date : 1978-11-29 Report Number : Informal Working Note #15 URL : /view/dot/77873 "Preliminary Thoughts on Simulating" (1978). "Preliminary Thoughts on Simulating the Operational Logic of a Conventional Retarder System Using Profile" (1978) "Preliminary Thoughts on Simulating the Operational Logic of a Conventional Retarder System Using Profile" , 1978 Export RIS Citation Information.

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SRI International

1978-11-29

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This note discusses preliminary thoughts on incorporating the logic to represent a conventional retarder yard system into PROFILE. PROFILE is the SRI-...
Taxonomy of Conventional Retarder Speed Control Systems

CITE Title : Taxonomy of Conventional Retarder Speed Control Systems Creator(s) : Wong, Peter J Corporate Creator(s) : SRI International Published Date : 1979-02-27 Report Number : Informal Note #13 URL : /view/dot/77966 "Taxonomy of Conventional Retarder" (1979). "Taxonomy of Conventional Retarder Speed Control Systems" (1979) "Taxonomy of Conventional Retarder Speed Control Systems" , 1979 Export RIS Citation Information.

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Wong, Peter J

1979-02-27

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The conventional retarder speed control system is a misnomer. In particular, there are many system configurations one can put together with “convent...
Quantifying the Economics in Comparing Speed Control Systems

CITE Title : Quantifying the Economics in Comparing Speed Control Systems Creator(s) : Wong, Peter J Corporate Creator(s) : SRI International Published Date : 1978-10-02 URL : /view/dot/75505 "Quantifying the Economics in" (1978). "Quantifying the Economics in Comparing Speed Control Systems" (1978) "Quantifying the Economics in Comparing Speed Control Systems" , 1978 Export RIS Citation Information.

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Wong, Peter J

1978-10-02

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Herein, we present some preliminary thoughts on how to quantify into economic terms the performance of various speed control systems. The performance ...
Visit with ASEA Representatives

CITE Title : Visit with ASEA Representatives Corporate Creator(s) : SRI International Published Date : 1979-06-19 Report Number : Informal Note 20 URL : /view/dot/75838 "Visit with ASEA Representatives" (1979). "Visit with ASEA Representatives" (1979) "Visit with ASEA Representatives" , 1979 Export RIS Citation Information.

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SRI International

1979-06-19

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The purpose of ASEA’s trip to the Southern Pacific Railroad was to introduce ASEA’s classification yard equipment to the railroad. ASEA’s equipm...
Preliminary Thoughts on Simulating the Dowty System Using Profile

CITE Title : Preliminary Thoughts on Simulating the Dowty System Using Profile Creator(s) : Stock, William A Corporate Creator(s) : SRI International Published Date : 1978-11-15 Report Number : Informal Note #4 URL : /view/dot/77872 "Preliminary Thoughts on Simulating" (1978). "Preliminary Thoughts on Simulating the Dowty System Using Profile" (1978) "Preliminary Thoughts on Simulating the Dowty System Using Profile" , 1978 Export RIS Citation Information.

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Stock, William A

1978-11-15

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This note discusses preliminary thoughts on modifying the SRI developed hump yard profile simulation, PROFILE, to simulate the Dowty retarder system. ...
An Advanced Retarder Control Algorithm: Preliminary Concept Design 1

CITE Title : An Advanced Retarder Control Algorithm: Preliminary Concept Design 1 Creator(s) : Wong, Peter J Corporate Creator(s) : SRI International Published Date : 1978-12-28 URL : /view/dot/75501 "An Advanced Retarder Control" (1978). "An Advanced Retarder Control Algorithm: Preliminary Concept Design 1" (1978) "An Advanced Retarder Control Algorithm: Preliminary Concept Design 1" , 1978 Export RIS Citation Information.

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Wong, Peter J

1978-12-28

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Current retarder control algorithms consider only the “characteristics” of the car to be controlled in determining how to control the car. This ty...