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Automation and control in transport /
Automation and Control in Transport reviews the significant advances in transport automation and control. All the present and future foreseeable modes of transport, particularly railways, are treated mathematically. Topics range from dynamic systems to route capacity, vehicle spacing, traffic conges...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford ; New York :
Pergamon Press,
[1973]
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| Edición: | [1st ed.]. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Front Cover; Automation and Control in Transport; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; FOREWORD; PREFACE; NOTATION; Chapter 1. Dynamic Systems; 1.1 System concepts; 1.2 Open-loop systems; 1.3 ""Feedback""-closed-loop systems; 1.4 The phase-plane diagram; Chapter 2. Route Capacity-Laws for Vehicle Following; 2.1 Lane capacity; 2.2 Car-following theory; 2.3 Automatic vehicle systems; Chapter 3. Control of Vehicle Spacing-Railway Signalling; 3.1 Necessity for signalling on railways; 3.2 The ""train-order"" system; 3.3 The ""block"" system; 3.4 Lock and block; 3.5 Multiple-aspect signalling.
- Chapter 4. Problems of Congestion-Traffic Regulation4.1 Random events; 4.2 Queues-Poisson arrivals-constant service times; 4.3 Exponential service times; 4.4 Effect of delays on headway of signalled systems; 4.5 Statistical aspects of car-following behaviour; 4.6 Traffic waves; Chapter 5. Computer Aids to Operation-Traffic Surveillance and Control; 5.1 Application of digital computers; 5.2 Continuous progress control (C.P.C.), Dynamic programming; 5.3 Optimum train sequence; 5.4 Traffic surveillance and control; 5.5 Control of cascaded vehicles; 5.6 System flow charts; 5.7 Train describers.
- Chapter 6. Measurement of Power-Analogue Computing6.1 Mechanical manipulation of data; 6.2 Equivalent mechanical and electrical quantities; 6.3 Potential and flow; 6.4 Operational amplifiers; 6.5 Vehicle suspension analogy; 6.6 Application to strings of vehicles; 6.7 Hybrid computers; 6.8 Simulation of service environment; Chapter 7. Vehicle Detection; 7.1 Presence detectors; 7.2 Track circuits; 7.3 Jointless track circuits; 7.4 Guided radar; Chapter 8. Vehicle Identification; 8.1 The ""Identra"" system; 8.2 Bus electronic scanning indicator; 8.3 Automatic wagon-recording system.
- Chapter 9. Communication of Control Signals to Moving Vehicles9.1 Automatic warning systems-cab signalling; 9.2 The ""Indusi"" system; 9.3 The ""Signum"" system; 9.4 Beacon devices; 9.5 Coded track circuit; 9.6 Professor Poup�e's system of coded track circuits; 9.7 Use of continuous conductors in the track; 9.8 Combination of magnetic and inductive loop systems; Chapter 10. Interlocking-Sequence Control; 10.1 Mechanical interlocking; 10.2 Boolean algebra; Chapter 11. Sorting and Marshalling; 11.1 The hump yard; 11.2 Automatic retarders; 11.3 Dowty retarders.
- Chapter 12. Control of Acceleration and Power12.1 Limitations; 12.2 Equations of motion; 12.3 Values of resistance coefficient; 12.4 Estimation of distance-time relationships; 12.5 Coasting; 12.6 Control of engine speed; 12.7 Automatic transmissions; 12.8 Control of electric motive power; 12.9 Use of transductors in power control; 12.10 Application of induction motors; 12.11 Wheel-slip control; 12.12 Control of diesel power; 12.13 Adaptive control; 12.14 Shock factors in acceleration; Chapter 13. Control of Braking; 13.1 Forms of braking; 13.2 Physiological aspects.