Energy savings in metropolitan railway substations through regenerative energy recovery and optimal design of ATO speed profiles

IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 496-504

  Domínguez, María ^a   Fernández Cardador, Antonio ^a   Cucala, Asunción P ^a   Pecharromán, Ramón R ^a  

^a Universidad Pontificia Comillas   (Spain)

Author keywords

Automatic train operation systems (ATO); ecodriving; energy efficiency; metro; regenerative energy; storage device; traffic regulation; train simulation

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATIC TRAIN OPERATIONS; ECO-DRIVING; METRO; REGENERATIVE ENERGY; TRAFFIC REGULATIONS; TRAIN SIMULATION;

DATA STORAGE EQUIPMENT; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; ENERGY UTILIZATION; OPTIMAL SYSTEMS; OPTIMIZATION; RAILROAD TRANSPORTATION; RECOVERY; SPEED; VIRTUAL STORAGE;

INVESTMENTS;

EID: 84863455028     PISSN: 15455955     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TASE.2012.2201148     Document Type: Article

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