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contributor authorWu, Qing
contributor authorGe, Xiaohua
contributor authorZhu, Shengyang
contributor authorCole, Colin
contributor authorSpiryagin, Maksym
date accessioned2024-12-24T18:49:11Z
date available2024-12-24T18:49:11Z
date copyright5/3/2024 12:00:00 AM
date issued2024
identifier issn0022-0434
identifier otherds_146_04_041008.pdf
identifier urihttp://yetl.yabesh.ir/yetl1/handle/yetl/4302804
description abstractVirtual coupling of railway trains is an emerging technology that has the potential to significantly increase railway operational efficiency by reducing the train following distance from absolute braking distances to relative braking distances. Current research in this topic is mainly focused on passenger trains and uses distance-based headways. This paper studied virtual coupling for heavy haul freight trains and demonstrated that the distance headway scheme was challenging and sometimes impractical for heavy haul trains to achieve virtual coupling. A time-based headway scheme was then proposed to set the follower train to be a certain time behind the schedule of the leader train rather than a distance headway. The time-based headway required the follower train to reproduce the leader train's operational status at the same track location. This also allowed the follower train to copy any optimized train driving strategies from the leader train. Demonstrative simulations were carried out without the consideration of communication errors and train localization errors. The results show that a conventional distance headway simulation had maximum distance and speed errors of 716 m (36%, reference 2 km) and 24 km/h (66%, reference 36 km/h), respectively. A time-based headway simulation reduced the maximum distance and speed errors to 0.07 m (0%, reference 2 km) and 0.1 km/h (9%, reference 1.18 km/h), respectively.
publisherThe American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)
titleA Time Headway Control Scheme for Virtually Coupled Heavy Haul Freight Trains
typeJournal Paper
journal volume146
journal issue4
journal titleJournal of Dynamic Systems, Measurement, and Control
identifier doi10.1115/1.4065401
journal fristpage41008-1
journal lastpage41008-7
page7
treeJournal of Dynamic Systems, Measurement, and Control:;2024:;volume( 146 ):;issue: 004
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