Computer simulation of rail transit vehicle systems-method and advantages

Author

Wen, Robert Bingguang ; Triplett, John D.

Author_Institution

Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority, Atlanta, GA, USA

fYear

1991

fDate

21-23 May 1991

Firstpage

9

Lastpage

11

Abstract

Entire rail transit vehicles and subsystems, including propulsion, control, auxiliary electric, doors, communications, air comfort, truck and suspension, friction brakes, car body, coupler, and carborne automatic train control (ATC) equipment, can be modeled using proven simulation programs such as PSPICE and SABER. Such a model is presented to show how accurately and easily systems can be simulated. The model is used as an example to demonstrate the advantage of simulating the vehicle systems for specification, design, procurement, maintenance, and operation of rail transit vehicles

Keywords

control engineering computing; digital simulation; railways; air comfort; auxiliary electric; car body; carborne automatic train control; communications; computer simulation; control; coupler; design; doors; friction brakes; maintenance; procurement; propulsion; rail transit vehicle systems; specification; suspension; Automatic control; Communication system control; Computational modeling; Computer simulation; Friction; Procurement; Propulsion; Rails; SPICE; Vehicles;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Railroad Conference, 1991., Proceedings of the 1991 IEEE/ASME Joint

Conference_Location

St. Louis, MO

Print_ISBN

0-7803-0072-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/RRCON.1991.160921

Filename

160921