OPTIMAL ALLOCATION AND OPTIMAL LONG-RANGE INVESTMENT POLICY OF SAFETY DEVICES IN RAILWAYS

In railways there are many kinds of safety devices, such as cab warning devices, signal and switch apparatus, safety tracks, railroad crossing protections, avalanche warning devices, falling-rock detectors, train dispatching communication system, A.T.C. and C.T.C. A reliability model is discussed here, but this is a little more general than the usual multicomponent models, and is a special case of the so-called allocation processes. Problem of safety investment is, therefore, to find the method to improve the safety level of the whole system with a given cost.

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• Corporate Authors:

  JAPANESE NATIONAL RAILWAYS

  TOKYO,   Japan 
• Authors:
  • Abe, S
• Publication Date: 1964-3

Media Info

• Pagination: p. 46-47
• Serial:
  • Railway Technical Research Institute, Quarterly Reports
  • Volume: 5
  • Issue Number: 1
  • Publisher: Railway Technical Research Institute/Tetsudo Gijutsu Kenkyujo
  • ISSN: 0033-9008
  • Serial URL: http://www.rtri.or.jp/eng/

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Planning; Railroads; Safety; Technology
• Geographic Terms: Japan
• Subject Areas: Planning and Forecasting; Railroads; Safety and Human Factors;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00033232
• Record Type: Publication
• Report/Paper Numbers: Quart Rpt
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Jul 8 1994 12:00AM