• Proceedings of the KSR Conference
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• 2011.05a
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• pp.1327-1335
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• 2011

Recently, also in railway vehicles, related products are being designed and manufactured through RAMS activities in order to secure their reliability, availability, maintainability & safety. Subway operators are conducting R&D on various preventive maintenance methods and applying them to the field so as to establish a reliability centered maintenance(RCM) system. In this connection, manufacturers shall carry out R&D based on reliability from the first design stage of development to provide high quality products to subway operators. And operators shall have the products operated properly to their particular operating environment and managed based on the standard maintenance manual. Not only that, but the related field data shall be fed back into the manufacturers to upgrade upcoming products by organic cooperation between manufacturer and operators. However, the mutually beneficial cooperative relationship is not still developed in the domestic railway industry. In terms of methodology for life prediction, this study was intended to analyze field data on relays used for rolling stocks considering operational characteristics in the position of subway operators and predict parts reliability using reliability prediction program from the standpoint of manufacturers as well.

• The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers P
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• v.64 no.4
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• pp.212-219
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• 2015

Korea's first tram (so called "tram"), which was commenced the operation on May 4, 1899 of late Joseon Dynasty and run until 1968, played a pivotal role of public transportation. However, tram as new transportation mean is being recognized as traffic congestion problem becomes issue due to geometric automobile increase and reckless urban plan after stoppage of tram service. Tram has an advantage of inexpensive construction cost and eco-friendly means compared to existing and city railway, carrying more passengers rather than existing bus, excellent connectivity of existing transportation because of easy accessible to destination in the city center. Therefore, tram, what is called "Green Rvolution of Public Transportation", has a dreaming of revival and in the process of pushing. We suggest the accident type which might break out in the early stage of tram introduction and preventive measures by surveying the accident cases of tram advanced country, and study the crossing control measures.

• The Transactions of The Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers
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• v.65 no.4
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• pp.695-703
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• 2016

The maintenance method for the electrical facility of high speed railway has been evolved from inspection by personnel to the automated way by the detection devices. In particular, the signalling equipment in order to increase the safe and efficient operation of the trains is required to maintain normal operation by periodic maintenance. Because the return current gives the most important effects to the wayside equipment in case of the failures, a method is needed to measure the unbalanced rate of return current on the train at high speed driving. The Hot Box Detector(HBD) device that is installed at track-side has a function to recognize the abnormal axle box by detecting the temperature that occurs in the axle of train passing over its device. In order to implement the measurement equipment for unbalanced rate of return current and axle temperature, the design method is proposed and the experimental test results by test bed are included in the paper.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Telematics and Electronics S
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• v.35S no.10
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• pp.186-192
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• 1998

This paper presents a high performance low switching PWM technique or the propulsion system of railway such as subway and high speed train. In order to achieve the continuous voltage control to six-step and s low harmonics with low switching frequency under 500Hz, the synchronous technique is combined with a space vector overmodulation and implemented by using DSP. Improved performance and a validation of proposed method are showed by the digital simulation and the experimental results using a 1.65MVA IGBT VVVF inverter and inertia load equivalent to 160 tons railway cars.

• Proceedings of the KSR Conference
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• 2008.06a
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• pp.1505-1510
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• 2008

A railway is a complex system integrated with a lot of technical elements such as trains, track facilities, human factors, operation & control and maintenance. As a mass transportation system, a railway could contain potential risks that may result in a high death rate and property losses. Accordingly, Railroad Safety Technology R&D Corps. is adopting the plan of the construction of Railway Safety Test Facilities as a part of the Railway Total Safety Project to enhance the railway safety, and carrying out researches on effective project management methods with Systems Engineering techniques. Recently, various systems engineering tools such as CORE or Cradle are applied to manage the system requirements and the project management process in the part of the aerospace engineering and automobile engineering so on. The railway industry also makes an effort to develop an efficient management skills using systems engineering tools as the railway system is multi-disciplinary. Therefore, we propose the more effectual management method of constructing the Railway Safety Test Facilities applying the systems engineering tool to the research.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Railway
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• v.18 no.6
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• pp.533-542
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• 2015

This paper suggest away to maintain constant power through trolley wire by transferring increased line voltage to the AC main line while changing the mode from Converter(Forward) to Inverter(Reverse) when the line voltage is increased due to regenerative power when the train stops, This paper suggests a Double Converter DC substation that can create regenerative power when the train stops reusable. We also proposed using a simulation tool, the optimal Thyrister firing angle that can minimize the undershoot and overshoot that occurs when transferring the mode from Converter to Inverter for quality improvement of DC voltage in the Double Converter in the DC substation from the Busan Urban Subway.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 1997.11a
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• pp.634-637
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• 1997

This paper is on the research and development of new SIV(Static Inverter) using IGBT(Insulated Gate Bipolar Transistor) semiconductor for a wide range of electric railway applications. For the simplification and higher controllability, the direct PWM control method with 3level inverter topology was adopted. In the new SIV system, the cost as well as bulk and weight was appreciably reduced about 40% lower than those of conventional SIV, the electrical efficiency was increased above 95% and the audible noise level was less than 65dB. In addition, the THD(Total Harmonic Distortion) factor was below 5% and the voltage fluctuation on a transient state was below 10%.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Railway
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• v.11 no.4
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• pp.410-416
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• 2008

The inter-industrial inducement effects of the korean railway services on the output, value-added, imports of the 403 industrial sectors of the korean economy have been computed by the input-output analysis technique utilizing the 2003 Input-Output Tables, which was published most recently in April 2007 by the Bank of Korea. The korean railway service industry produced \2,766 billion worth of passenger and freight railroad services in the 2003 year, and it has induced \1,701 billion worth of output, \781 billion worth of value-added, and \580 billion worth of imports of the korean industry as a whole. The energy sector industries such as diesel fuel, thermal power generation, nuclear power generation, crude oil, liquid natural gas, bituminous coal, liquid propane gas have been most affected by the korean railway services. Other industries mainly affected by the korean railway services include railroad car manufacturing, cleaning and decontamination, medical and health service, machinery equipment and rental, construction and maintenance, transportation related services, business R&D, property insurance, and telecommunication.

• Proceedings of the KSR Conference
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• 2002.10a
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• pp.137-142
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• 2002

This paper shows the results of exterior and interior design of a prototype test train(HSR 350X) which was developed in R＆D project titled "Development of High Speed Railway Technology". The prototype test train, which has two power cars, two motorized trailers and three trailers, is now being tested on high speed line. The improved conceptual design work of a new commercial train and next generation′s train is also peformed for future needs.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Railway
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• v.17 no.5
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• pp.349-354
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• 2014

Other foreign countries already apply ETCS LEVEL 2 in signaling systems. It provides added functions to control a train using wireless communication compared with ETCS LEVEL 1. Nowadays, the ETCS LEVEL 2 system is being applied on revenue services more and more frequently. Therefore, it is necessary to develop ETCS LEVEL 2 to apply in this country. The advanced technology of the ETCS LEVEL 2 system provides continuous control for train protection, and ATP function, by comparing discontinuous controls on ETCS LEVEL 1. ETCS LEVEL 2 is a better system model for improving passenger safety. This paper describes the design of an onboard speed profile for the ETCS LEVEL 2 system and it forecasts the future of ETCS.