An Active RFID System for Railway Vehicle Identification and Positioning

An active RFID system for railway vehicle identification and position has been designed and developed. Testing was conducted in the Light-Rail System in Hong Kong and the performance was found to be robust. The system caters for passenger information application, and can be applied to various applications including Maintenance System, Vehicles Location/Positioning System etc.

• Record URL:
  • http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/freeabs_all.jsp?arnumber=4730845
• Authors:
  • Lee, L T
  • Tsang, K F
• Conference:
  • International Conference on Railway Engineering - Challenges for Railway Transportation in Information Age, 2008
  • Location: Hong Kong , China
  • Date: 2008-3-25 to 2008-3-28
• Publication Date: 2008

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Digital/other
• Features: Figures; References;
• Pagination: 4p

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Automatic car identification; Automatic vehicle location; Design; Light rail vehicles; Radio frequency identification; Railroad cars; Simulation
• Geographic Terms: Hong Kong (China)
• Subject Areas: Operations and Traffic Management; Public Transportation; Railroads; I73: Traffic Control;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01354432
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: UC Berkeley Transportation Library
• Files: TLIB
• Created Date: Oct 21 2011 7:38AM