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Check for Availabilityout of stock. Click on the button below to search for this title in other formats. Computers in Railways VII
Synopses & ReviewsPublisher Comments:A collection of progress reports on the use of computer-based techniques, this book promotes their general awareness throughout the business management, design, manufacture and operation of railways and other advanced passenger, freight and transit systems. Over 125 papers are included and these were originally presented at the Seventh International Conference on Computer Aided Design, Manufacture and Operation in the Railway. Book News Annotation:Papers from a September 2000 conference report on progress in the use
of computer-based techniques in business management, design,
manufacture, and operation of the railways and other advanced
passenger, freight, and transit systems. Topics include advanced
train control systems, train locations systems, the passenger
interface, Maglev and linear machines, energy management, and
condition monitoring. Other subjects are infrastructure, systems
engineering and safety, electromagnetic compatibility, scheduling and
crew rostering, freight traffic, power supply, rail-wheel dynamics
and pantograph and catenary interaction, vehicle dynamics and
fatigue, traffic control, multi-train simulators, training, decision
support and human interface systems, and control systems and
communications. Lacks a subject index. Distributed in North America
by Computational Mechanics, Inc.
Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com) What Our Readers Are SayingBe the first to add a comment for a chance to win!Product Details
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