Measurement of railway profiles using GPS integrated with other sensors

Author

Leahy, F. ; Judd, M. ; Shortis, Mark

Author_Institution

Dept. of Surveying & Land Inf., Melbourne Univ., Parkville, Vic., Australia

fYear

1993

fDate

12-15 Oct. 1993

Firstpage

706

Lastpage

709

Abstract

The Public Transport Corporation of the State of Victoria, Australia has introduced "train-simulators" to enhance the skills of drivers and thereby minimize fuel consumption and equipment wear. The efficiency of simulators depends upon the availability of accurate, continuous and uniform survey information to model the vertical and horizontal profiles of the track. The development and implementation of a rapid rail track mapping system based on the integration of the global position system with other sensors is reported. 200 kilometers of track data can be acquired per day without disruption to normal traffic.

Keywords

Global Positioning System; Public Transport Corporation; equipment wear; fuel consumption; global position system; rapid rail track mapping system; sensors; survey information; track data; train-simulators; Australia; Cities and towns; Costs; Fuels; Global Positioning System; Rail transportation; Sensor systems; Solid modeling; Traffic control; Wearable sensors;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Vehicle Navigation and Information Systems Conference, 1993., Proceedings of the IEEE-IEE

Conference_Location

Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Print_ISBN

0-7803-1235-X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/VNIS.1993.585725

Filename

585725