CONTINUOUS MEASUREMENT AND CONTROL OF THE SPEED OF WAGONS SHUNTED OVER HUMPS

The classical automatic marshalling yard with retarders, weigh rails, wagon rollability measurement, doppler radar speed measurement computers, etc. falls short of what is required. Six new systems being developed in Europe are briefly described. These systems will be evaluated by comparing the following quantities: installation costs, system capacity, annual maintenance costs, and shortcomings.

• Supplemental Notes:
  • Question D74.
• Corporate Authors:

  International Union of Railways

  Office of Research and Experiments
  Utrecht,   Netherlands 
• Publication Date: 1966-7

Media Info

• Features: Photos;
• Pagination: p. 18-19
• Serial:
  • Publication of: International Union of Railways

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Automatic train operation; Costs; Maintenance management; Railroad cars; Railroad yards; Technology
• Uncontrolled Terms: Maintenance costs
• Geographic Terms: France; Germany; Russia (Federation); United Kingdom
• Old TRIS Terms: Question d74
• Subject Areas: Finance; Freight Transportation; Railroads; Terminals and Facilities;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00039631
• Record Type: Publication
• Report/Paper Numbers: ORE Publ 23
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Dec 4 1994 12:00AM