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Improve Visibility with Avante Avante International Technology has developed a series of patented and patent-pending systems for rail visibility and safety, which are cost-effective in implementation without interfering with daily operations of trains. Avante’s SwitchPoint Monitoring System provides supplementary and independent monitoring of switch point positions to central command and oncoming trains within three to six miles. The quantitative switch point closure data with built-in redundant contactless sensors (absolute closure or measurable gap sensing) is transmitted wirelessly in realtime to central command and designed to broadcast to oncoming trains with a special
display and alerting console. These sensors solve both the wrong switch-position problem and the improper closing or malfunctioning switch point problem. The system is designed to be mounted and installed onto each switch point within 30 minutes without drilling or other disruption to normal train operations for any extended period of time. The Rail Visibility System solution is designed to provide real-time imaging visibility of rail crossings and curved rail sections, to provide advanced visibility to engineers. Digital imaging video cameras are installed and broadcast real-time images of crossing areas to oncoming trains.
nexpected disruptions during operations, for example due to track closures or train delays, require an immediate adjustment of timetables and appropriate information for passengers. Controlguide OCS from Siemens is the new platform for integrated operative and dispatching control systems. Using Controlguide OCS, Siemens reduces, for instance, the adjustment time of several minutes as featured by conventional systems to only a few seconds. Because of its scalability and modularity, this platform is highly flexible. The functions to be implemented can be individually adjusted or retrofitted at a later stage in line with customers’ requirements. Different types of interlocking systems and train control systems can be monitored and controlled by Controlguide OCS. These functions can be centralized for even more effective operations management for individual lines.
Development and Operation of New York’s IRT and BMT by Alfred E. Fazio, P.E. How would early 20th-Century experts such as William Parsons, Frank Sprague, Fred Lavis and Bion Arnold handled some of today’s challenges facing light rail operation? Read along as Fazio uncovers this premise by exploring the various issues and tactics used when the NYCTA
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assumed control of the BMT and IRT lines. Concludes with a series of historical case studies concerning Hudson-Bergen Light Rail’s Bayonne Flyer and “three roads,” BART operations, and the Washington METRO’s capacity challenges. Paperback. 136 pages. Full color.
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