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Meeting the Demands for Major International Traffic Flows through Railnet Austria's Maintenance and Capacity Planning Regime

  • Herbacek, R.;Petri, K.;Ertl, B.
    • International Journal of Railway
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    • v.1 no.4
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    • pp.134-142
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    • 2008
  • Serving as a strategic crossing point for major corridors in Central Europe, Railnet Austria's Infrastructure Network incurs continual increases in international traffic flows and is therefore subject to accumulating traffic congestion with potential restrictions to infrastructure access. This imposes challenges towards preserving open access to Railnet Austria's existing railway network and hinders quality infrastructure service during maintenance, repair, and upgrading. Through Railnet Austria's experiences, the economic viability of a railway network can be sustained through maintaining open access with good quality service of planned trainpaths, thus representing new challenges for future infrastructure maintenance and capacity planning. Railnet Austria's Capacity Management Department has proven that these challenges can be accommodated more effectively through recent technological developments in data warehousing and software development.

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Power Quality Optimal Control of Railway Static Power Conditioners Based on Electric Railway Power Supply Systems

  • Jiang, Youhua;Wang, Wenji;Jiang, Xiangwei;Zhao, Le;Cao, Yilong
    • Journal of Power Electronics
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    • v.19 no.5
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    • pp.1315-1325
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    • 2019
  • Aiming at the negative sequence and harmonic problems in the operation of railway static power conditioners, an optimization compensation strategy for negative sequence and harmonics is studied in this paper. First, the hybrid RPC topology and compensation principle are analyzed to obtain different compensation zone states and current capacities. Second, in order to optimize the RPC capacity configuration, the minimum RPC compensation capacity is calculated according to constraint conditions, and the optimal compensation coefficient and compensation angle are obtained. In addition, the voltage unbalance ${\varepsilon}_U$ and power factor requirements are satisfied. A PSO (Particle Swarm Optimization) algorithm is used to calculate the three indexes for minimum compensating energy. The proposed method can precisely calculate the optimal compensation capacity in real time. Finally, MATLAB simulations and an experimental platform verify the effectiveness and economics of the proposed algorithm.

A Characteristics of Bearing Capacity by PG Pile on Waste Landfill (폐기물 매립지반에서 PG Pile의 지반지지력 특성)

  • 천병식;최춘식
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Railway
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    • v.3 no.4
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    • pp.213-218
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    • 2000
  • Waste landfill is so loose that it may cause the insufficient bearing capacity and the differential settlement. And so, characteristics and conditions of the ground should be considered in applications of ground improvement in waste landfill. In this paper, analysis of field tests as the static loading test and the bearing capacity test were performed. In result, PG(Pack Grouting) pile method is proved effective and economic, because it could bring about the increase of end bearing capacity, the prevention of differential settlement and increase of density by expansion of pile.

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A Train Seat Capacity Distribution Model to Multiple Origin-Destinations (다수의 기종점에 대한 열차의 좌석용량배분모형)

  • 김성호;오석문
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Railway
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    • v.5 no.2
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    • pp.77-83
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    • 2002
  • In this paper we present a nonlinear programming model for the train seat capacity distribution with a numerical example. The model finds the optimal capacity distribution methods which minimize the sum of the differences between the demands and the seat capacities. Also the model provides the information on the degree of the discrepancy between the demand and the seat capacities. One can use the model as a tool for planning train seat capacity planning.

A Study on Proper Station Spacing in Urban Railway (도시철도에서의 적정 역간거리에 관한 연구)

  • Kim, Gang-Seog;Sung, Ki-Han;Lim, Young-Su
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Railway
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    • v.9 no.6 s.37
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    • pp.766-771
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    • 2006
  • Railway stations are important facilities for transport of passengers and freights. The location of station have an effect on the efficiency of railway transport and operation. In this study, an inspection of the primary factors for station spacing in urban railway has been performed and a review for the propriety of the present states and further improvement has been carried. It may be helpful for proper decisions on the route planning in urban railway. Primary factors for station spacing are 1)train capacity, 2)competitiveness with other transportation, 3)accessibility and 4)construction cost, which is out of consideration in the inspection. From the result of this study, the proper station spacing is about 600m for the accessibility, more over 1.03km for the train capacity and more over 1.4km for the competitiveness with other transportation.

A Study on Technology Development of High Capacity PWM Converter for Electric Vehicle (전기철도용 대용량 PWM 컨버터 기술개발에 관한 연구)

  • Han, Young-Jae;Jo, Jeong-Min;Bae, Chang-Han;Lee, Young-Ho
    • The Transactions of The Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers
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    • v.67 no.12
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    • pp.1729-1734
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    • 2018
  • Recently, interest in environmentally friendly transportation systems has been increasing, and study on railway systems has been aggressively conducted. Therefore, lots of studies have been done in railway advanced countries to improve performance of PWM converter. The research on the PWM converter for railway vehicle was mainly carried out on the converter mounted on railway vehicle such as the high-speed railway and metropolitan railway. In also, a lot of study has been carried out to improve converter performance installed in the ground. The high-capacity transform used in this paper converted from AC 22.9kV to AC 590V. The converter changed from AC 590V to DC 950V. In general, in the case of rectifier, the DC power supply system has a negative impact on inverter control characteristics because it can not avoid the pulsating component. In this study, it was performed current control for high-capacity converter using Matlab Simulink. The PWM converter is normally performed through the voltage and current at starting mode, powering mode, and braking mode. In the light-load test and the on-line test, we have studied for the PWM converter characteristics. Using this research, we have founded that the converter has excellent performance.

A Study on the Development of Railway Logistics Business Model and Track Capacity

  • GyuBae KIM;SungWook KANG
    • Journal of Distribution Science
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    • v.21 no.9
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    • pp.93-102
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    • 2023
  • Purpose: This study attempts to analyze the current status of the railway logistics business and to seek ways to improve it by using the business model as an analytical framework. It was intended to reflect practical implications that could be applied to the field, by dealing with issues at the industrial site related to each component in the business model. Research design, data and methodology: This study was conducted through literature review and field research. We analyzed academic papers and industrial reports on the development of the railway logistics industry and interviewed various stakeholders in the railway logistics industry. Results: This study determined the factors that could be eliminated, raised, reduced, or created from the customer and product perspective, infrastructure management perspective, and financial perspective. Conclusions: The growth of existing business can be achieved by lowering service prices, improving service quality, and securing large-scale transportation capacity. The additional transportation of high value goods and cold chain commodities will be promising business opportunities. Existing services can be provided to new customers (large pre-shippers, forwarding customers, etc.) in order to increase the size of sales Urban delivery services and comprehensive logistics services based on complex logistics centers may open an avenue for new market. A more timetable and track capacity need to be assigned to logistics, which significantly improve the flexibility and the competency of railway logistics.

Determining the Capacity and Installation Positions of Regenerative Inverters at DC 1500V Electric Railway Substations (직류 1500V 전기철도용 변전소의 회생인버터 용량 및 설치위치 선정 방법)

  • Bae, Chang-Han;Han, Moon-Seub;Kim, Yong-Ki;Kwon, Sam-Young;Park, Hyun-June
    • The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers B
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    • v.55 no.9
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    • pp.478-484
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    • 2006
  • The paper presents methods of determining the capacity and installation positions of regenerative inverters installed in DC 1500V electric railway system. We suggested a method that approximates using parameters related to substations where regenerative inverters are installed, railway lines and operating motor cars, and another that calculates using regenerative power obtained from Train performance Simulation (TPS) and Power Flow Simulation (PFS). We carried out TPS and PFS for Seoul Subway Line $5{\sim}8$, calculating regenerative power and determining substations where regenerative inverters would be installed and the optimal capacity and number of inverters to be installed.

Analysis of Voltage Stability in Electric Railway Feeding System (전기철도 급전계통의 집전전압 안정도 해석)

  • Lee Chang-Mu;Lee Han-Min;Han Moon-Seob;Kim Joo-Rak;Jung Ho-Seong
    • Proceedings of the KSR Conference
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    • 2004.10a
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    • pp.1384-1389
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    • 2004
  • The primary objective of this paper is to examine the capacity of electrical transmission in electric railway feeding system. Although supply capacity of railway substation are sufficient and there is no accident, due to the electrical transmission limit of feeding line the voltage breakdown may occur when large capacity of electric load at feeding line exist. So, using multi-port analysis model, we draw P-V curve due to the length of feeding line, load, location and power factor of electric locomotive. And through case study, compare measurement result and simulation result

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Settlement and Bearing Capacity of Roadbed Subjected to Tilting-train Loading in Various Ground Conditions

  • Jeon, Sang-Soo
    • International Journal of Railway
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    • v.8 no.2
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    • pp.35-41
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    • 2015
  • Tilting-train is very attractive to the railroad users in the world due to the advantage of high speed in curved track using pre-existing infrastructure of railway. Tilting-train has a unique allowable speed and mechanism especially in curved track. In this work, when tilting-train is operated with the allowable speed, the behavior of roadbed is evaluated by examining its settlement and bearing capacity. Additionally, the stability of roadbed is estimated as the roadbed is in the condition of soft soil influenced by the weather effects and cyclic train loading. Numerical results show that the roadbed settlement satisfies the allowable settlement when the elastic modulus of upper roadbed should be greater than $5000t/m^2$.