EXTENDED SYSTEM OPERATIONS STUDIES FOR AUTOMATED GUIDEWAY TRANSIT SYSTEMS: PLAN FOR TASK 5--DPM FAILURE MANAGEMENT

The purpose of Task 5 in the Extended System Operations Studies Project, DPM Failure Management, is to enhance the capabilities of the Downtown People Mover Simulation (DPMS) and the Discrete Event Simulation Model (DESM) by increasing the failure modeling detail of these processors so that a variety of failure management strategies can be evaluated in terms of total vehicle and passenger delay. The purposes of this planning document are to list the major failure management strategies that are currently being considered in engineering studies of DPMs and to propose software modifications, in functional terms, and analysis techniques that will permit modeling of as many of these strategies as possible.

• Corporate Authors:

  General Motors Technical Center

  Warren, MI  United States  48090

  Transportation Systems Center

  55 Broadway, Kendall Square
  Cambridge, MA  United States  02142

  Urban Mass Transportation Administration

  400 7th Street, SW
  Washington, DC  United States  20590
• Authors:
  • Duke, J F
  • LEE, R A
• Publication Date: 1981-6

Media Info

• Pagination: 35 p.

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Algorithms; Automated guideway transit; Failure; Failure analysis; Passenger transportation; People movers; Rapid transit; Reliability; Simulation; Transportation operations
• Uncontrolled Terms: Transportation management
• Old TRIS Terms: Rapid transit railways
• Subject Areas: Operations and Traffic Management; Passenger Transportation; Public Transportation; Railroads;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00343072
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: National Technical Information Service
• Report/Paper Numbers: DOT-TSC-UMTA-80-28 Final Rpt.
• Contract Numbers: DOT-TSC-1783
• Files: NTIS, TRIS, USDOT
• Created Date: Sep 16 1981 12:00AM