Energy saving for automatic train control in moving block signaling system

IEEE Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems, Proceedings, ITSC

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 1305-1310

  Gu, Qing ^a   Lu, Xiao Yun ^b   Tang, Tao ^a  

^a BEIJING JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

ATO (Automatic Train Operation); ATP (Automatic Train Protection); energy saving; moving block; ride comfort; tracking; train speed trajectory; trajectory smoothing

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATIC TRAIN OPERATIONS; MOVING BLOCK; NONLINEAR PROGRAMMING METHODS; ONLINE IMPLEMENTATION; OPTIMIZATION PROCESS; RAILWAY TRAFFIC; RAPID DEVELOPMENT; REAL-TIME LOCATION; RIDE COMFORTS; SAFETY MARGIN; SIGNALING SYSTEMS; SMOOTHING ALGORITHMS; SPEED TRAJECTORIES; TARGET POINT; TRACKING CONTROLS; TRAIN SPEED;

ENERGY CONSERVATION; INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS; OPTIMIZATION; RAILROAD TRAFFIC CONTROL; SURFACE DISCHARGES; TARGET TRACKING; TRAJECTORIES;

AUTOMATIC TRAIN CONTROL;

EID: 83755173831     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ITSC.2011.6082964     Document Type: Conference Paper

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