Analysis of rail potential and stray current for Taipei Metro

IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology

Volumn 55, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 67-75

  Chen, Shi Lin ^a   Hsu, Shih Che ^a   Tseng, Chin Tien ^a   Yan, Kun Hong ^b   Chou, Huang Yu ^c   Too, Tong Ming ^c  

^a NATIONAL TSING HUA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b Taipei City Government ^*  (Taiwan)

^c Taipei Rapid Transit Corporation   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

DC transit railway; Diode grounded; Field tests; Multi train simulation; Rail to earth potential; Stray current

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC CURRENTS; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RAILROAD STATIONS;

DC TRANSIT RAILWAY; DIODE-GROUNDED SCHEME; FIELD TEST; MULTI-TRAIN SIMULATION; RAIL POTENTIAL; STRAY CURRENT;

RAILROAD TRANSPORTATION;

EID: 32144453658     PISSN: 00189545     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TVT.2005.861164     Document Type: Article

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