BENEFITS OF THE MEET/PASS PLANNING AND ENERGY MANAGEMENT SUBSYSTEMS OF THE ADVANCED RAILROAD ELECTRONICS SYSTEM (ARES)
The Advanced Railroad Electronics System (ARES) is one of several advanced train control systems (ATCS) now under development by U.S. railroad suppliers. This article quantifies the expected benefits from ARES for a large U.S. railroad in two areas: fuel savings and improved meet/pass planning. The ARES package will include both an Energy Management System (EMS) which is intended to optimize train velocity profiles--within schedule constraints--to minimize fuel consumption, and a meet/pass planning algorithm that "paces" trains to arrive at meeting points exactly as scheduled. It is concluded from this analysis that the EMS, while certainly technically feasible, as currently conceived does not produce reliable fuel savings. The meet/pass planning software is far more successful than the EMS in its present form. Achievement of major reductions in running times for bulk commodity trains, without penalty to priority freights and intermodal trains, is a very significant achievement.
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Authors:
- Smith, M E
- Patel, P K
- Resor, R R
- Kondapalli, S
- Publication Date: 1990
Media Info
- Features: Figures; Tables;
- Pagination: p. 301-309
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Serial:
- Journal of the Transportation Research Forum
- Volume: 30
- Issue Number: 2
- Publisher: Transportation Research Forum
- ISSN: 1046-1469
- Serial URL: https://trforum.org/journal-of-the-trf/
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Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: Algorithms; Benefits; Dispatching; Electronic equipment; Fuel consumption; Improvements; Minimization; Railroad facility operations; Railroads; Reduction (Chemistry); Running time
- Uncontrolled Terms: Line capacity
- Old TRIS Terms: Advanced railroad electronics system; Energy management system; Meet/pass planning; Reduction
- Subject Areas: Energy; Highways; Planning and Forecasting; Railroads;
Filing Info
- Accession Number: 00495733
- Record Type: Publication
- Files: TRIS
- Created Date: Jul 31 1990 12:00AM