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      <title>CONTINUOUS MEASUREMENT AND CONTROL OF THE SPEED OF WAGONS SHUNTED OVER HUMPS. COSTS OF THE VARIOUS SYSTEMS</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[The report contains a calculation of the costs of automatic hump yards, incurred for the following systems:  (a) DB system with primary and secondary retarders and conveyor devices; (b) SNCF system with primary and secondary retarders; (c) BR system with hydraulic retarding and boosting units.  The cost calculation according to uniform standards is based on the installations described in Report D 74/RP 4 with 32 and 48 sorting sidings and it covers: (a) The cost of investments, (b) Capital charges, (c) Operating cost.  For each installation the total costs and the specific total costs relative to one shunted wagon are indicated.  A comparative assessment of the various systems according to the cost involved is rather problematic on account of the divergent economic conditions.  The indicated details can only be used as informatory for special investigations.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 23 Nov 1976 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>CONTROL ALGORITHMS FOR RAIL RETARDERS AND CLOSING UP DEVICES IN MARSHALLING YARDS</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Making use of all the research carried out, up to the present, into the automation of marshalling yards, the author sets out to define the arrangements ensuring their automatic operating without any accident or human intervention.  He considers the problem of automatic route formation in accordance with a programme to have been already resolved, and recapitulates the studies already carried out concerning the space-time function of the movement of wagons, as well as the parameters on which that function depends -- the running of the wagons, curves, points and crossings, air resistance, the uncertain differences in speed when leaving the retarder and in the composition of the cuts, and the authorised speeds of impact.  He then describes and discusses some of the solutions which have been proposed, or tested, in order to resolve the problem, and finally arrives at the system which he referes to as the 2-Delt V method.  He examines it at length, and gives a detailed explanation of the Siemens algorithm of the operation of a variation of this method, providing for primary and secondary retarders, and ASEA spiral retarders.  Finally, he deals with another variation, providing for a haulage truck at the exit from the secondary retarders, and he shows the algorithm.  The article contains the plans of two marshalling yards equipped with these systems, together with a brief description, in an appendix, of the Dowty system used in the English station of Tinsley.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 29 Jan 1976 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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