Energy management of traction power substations on the Dallas Area Rapid Transit system

Author

Griffiths, Mark ; Sanders, Martin

Author_Institution

De Leuw, Cather & Co., USA

fYear

1999

fDate

1999

Firstpage

6

Lastpage

27

Abstract

The Dallas Area Rapid Transit (DART) Light Rail System (LRT) is unique among all other Light Rail Transit Systems in North America because it employs a real time, energy management demand metering system (EMS) to monitor and control traction power load. This system has been provided to reduce the cost impacts of demand billing imposed by the local electric utility. The fundamental requirement of the EMS is to predict the occurrence and timing of maximum peak loads and remotely control the power contributions from traction power substations to optimize the overall demand balance of each utility metering point

Keywords

computerised monitoring; energy management systems; power control; power system measurement; railways; rapid transit systems; substations; telecontrol; traction; Dallas Area Rapid Transit system; Light Rail System; North America; demand billing; energy management; maximum peak loads; real time energy management demand metering system; remote power control; traction power load control; traction power load monitoring; traction power substations; Control systems; Costs; Energy management; Light rail systems; Lighting control; Medical services; North America; Real time systems; Remote monitoring; Substations;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Railroad Conference, 1999. Proceedings of the 1999 ASME/IEEE Joint

Conference_Location

Dallas, TX

Print_ISBN

0-7803-5533-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/RRCON.1999.762400

Filename

762400