ANNUAL REPORT OF THE CANADIAN INSTITUTE OF GUIDED GROUND TRANSPORT. 1971-1972

This first annual report contains administrative reports on the organization's operations and in the appendices the progress reports on the following projects: A communications system for long trains; Signal processing for guided radar; Surface waveguides for guided radar obstacle detection in guided ground transportation; Track dynamics; Canadian Freight Transport Model summary report: Phase I; Improvement of automatic coupling-up performance in marshalling yards; Investigation of the stability and response of multi-car tracked vehicles; Control of multi-locomotive powered trains; A study of stresses and deformations under dynamic and static load systems in track structure and support; Forecasting the demand for transportation services; Solid-state repeaters; Railway to the Arctic.

• Corporate Authors:

  Canadian Institute of Guided Ground Transport

  Queen's University
  Kingston, Ontario K7L 3N6,   Canada 
• Publication Date: 1972-6-30

Media Info

• Features: Appendices; Figures; References;
• Pagination: 108 p.

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Communications; Couplers; Development; Forecasting; Freight traffic; Mathematical models; Proximity detectors; Radar; Railroad tracks; Research; Slave locomotives; Telecommunications; Traffic forecasting; Train track dynamics; Waveguides
• Uncontrolled Terms: Research and development
• Geographic Terms: Canada
• Old TRIS Terms: Automatic coupling; Railway to the arctic; Track response investigations; Track structures
• Subject Areas: Administration and Management; Freight Transportation; Railroads; Research;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00145173
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Canadian Institute of Guided Ground Transport
• Report/Paper Numbers: CIGGT-72-9
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Feb 16 1977 12:00AM