An Energy-efficient Metro Speed Profiles for Energy Savings: Application to the Valencia Metro

Nowadays one of the main priorities for metro line operators is the reduction of energy consumption, due to the environmental impact and economic cost. In order to achieve this objective different strategies can be applied, normally focused into rolling stock, infrastructure and/or operation. Considering short-term measures and related to the traffic operation strategies, different approaches are being researched. One of the most effective strategy which reduce net energy consumption is the use of efficient driving techniques. These techniques produce a speed profile between two stations that requires the minimum net energy consumption, without degrading commercial running times or passenger comfort. In this paper, a computer model for calculating the metro vehicles speed profiles minimizing the energy consumption was developed. The equations considered in the model represent the behavior of a single vehicle operated under manual driving, subject to different constraints such as the headway, cycle time, distances and acceleration limits. The proposed model calculates different commands to be systematically executed by the driver. The resulting simulator has been tuned by means of on board measurements of speed, accelerations and energy consumption obtained along different lines in Metro de Valencia network. For this purpose, different scenarios are analyzed to assess the achievable energy savings. In general terms and comparing with the actual energy consumption, the solutions proposed can reduce the net energy consumption around 19%.

• Record URL:
  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.trpro.2016.12.031
• Record URL:
  http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352146516307864
• Availability:
  • Find a library where document is available. Order URL: http://worldcat.org/issn/23521465
• Supplemental Notes:
  • © 2016 Ignacio Villalba Sanchis and Pablo Salvador Zuriaga . Published by Elsevier B.V.
• Authors:
  • Sanchis, Ignacio Villalba
  • Zuriaga, Pablo Salvador
• Conference:
  • XII Conference on Transport Engineering (CIT 2016)
  • Location: Valencia , Spain
  • Date: 2016-6-7 to 2016-6-9
• Publication Date: 2016

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Digital/other
• Features: Figures; Maps; Photos; References; Tables;
• Pagination: pp 226-233
• Serial:
  • Transportation Research Procedia
  • Volume: 18
  • Issue Number: 0
  • Publisher: Elsevier
  • ISSN: 2352-1465
  • Serial URL: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/23521465/
• Publication flags:

  Open Access (libre)

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Energy consumption; Environmental impacts; Headways; Passenger comfort; Rail transit stations; Simulation; Transit operating agencies
• Uncontrolled Terms: Speed profiles
• Geographic Terms: Valencia (Spain)
• Subject Areas: Energy; Environment; Public Transportation; Railroads;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01627149
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Feb 27 2017 9:38AM