Train Control and Operations

Details

• Creators:
  Hergenrother, Karl M.
• Corporate Creators:
  John A. Volpe National Transportation Systems Center (U.S.)
• Corporate Contributors:
  United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Railroad Administration. Office of Research and Development
• Subject/TRT Terms:
  • Adaptive control
  • Analysis
  • Automatic control
  • Automatic train control
  • Automatic train operation
  • Benefit cost analysis
  • Centralized traffic control
  • Costs
  • Environment
  • Human factors engineering
  More +
• Publication/ Report Number:
  DOT-TSC-FRA-71-05 ; PB-202 623
• Resource Type:
  Tech Report
• Geographical Coverage:
  United States
• Corporate Publisher:
  United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Railroad Administration
• Abstract:
  ATO (automatic train operation) and ATC (automatic train control) systems are evaluated relative to available technology and cost-benefit. The technological evaluation shows that suitable mathematical models of the dynamics of long trains are required before substantial improvements can be made to ATO systems, and the present ATC systems are presently near optimum. The cost-benefit analysis concludes that only railroads which find CTC (centralized traffic control) economically desirable will also find that ATC offers improved operating economies. ATO does not seem economically or politically practical in the general railroad environment. A brief evaluation is made of both the contribution of the railroad locomotive to air pollution and the possible means of controlling this pollution.
• Format:
  PDF
• Download URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/10126/dot_10126_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 1.41 MB]
• Collection(s):
  Volpe Center
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:09322c42ebe0f3d6a959553df53967d62834f2b91a1dd0541353c3cdfe1c0658