A novel approach for the measurement of absolute train speed

Vehicle System Dynamics

Volumn 46, Issue SUPPL.1, 2008, Pages 705-715

  Mei, T X ^a   Li, H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Absolute train speed; Measurement; Time shift

Indexed keywords

BOGIES (RAILROAD ROLLING STOCK); DYNAMIC RESPONSE; FEATURE EXTRACTION; WHEELS; MEASUREMENTS; SYSTEM THEORY; VEHICLES;

ABSOLUTE TRAIN SPEED; MEASUREMENT; TIME SHIFT; WHEELSETS;

SPEED;

ABSOLUTE TRAIN SPEED; ACCURATE MEASUREMENT; BOGIE FRAMES; CONVENTIONAL TECHNIQUES; INERTIAL SENSOR; MEASUREMENT METHODS; NEW APPROACHES; PARAMETER VARIATION; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; RAIL VEHICLES; ROTATIONAL SPEED; TIME SHIFT; TIME SHIFTS; TRACK EXCITATION; TRACK ROUGHNESS; TRAIN SPEED; VEHICLE GROUND SPEED; VEHICLE SPEED; WHEELSETS;

EID: 51449109363     PISSN: 00423114     EISSN: 17445159     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00423110802036984     Document Type: Conference Paper

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