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The motive power management function at a railroad can be significantly improved thanks to more timely and accurate information. With earlier and more reliable knowledge of train and locomotive performance and demands for power, motive power managers can improve their forward planning, which leads to improved locomotive utilization and better on-time train performance. Advanced Train Control Systems (ATCS) can be an important source of information for motive power management. With their train location, locomotive health, and work order reporting systems, ATCS have the potential of increasing accuracy to near 100% and reducing to a matter of seconds the time lag between an event and when that event becomes known to motive power managers. For this more timely and accurate information to be exploited, it must be organized and presented to the motive power managers in an efficient manner. In addition, there must be established a mechanism for timely communication to field forces of the motive power managers' plans. To achieve this, a computerized motive power control system was designed and implemented at Canadian National Railways. It consists of graphic displays of current train and locomotive location and status, alerts that highlight critical new information, functions for motive power planning, and facilities for communicating plans to field forces. With the motive power system in place, and gathering its information from ATCS, managers know about and can respond immediately to changes in train and locomotive demand and performance. Although ATCS are not a prerequisite for achieving benefits from an improved management control system, an effective management control system for tains and locomotives is a prerequisite for achieving full benefits from ATCS.

This paper appears in Transportation Research Record No. 1314, Advanced Train Control Systems 1991: Proceedings of a Symposium, June 17-19, 1991, Denver, Colorado. Distribution, posting, or copying of this PDF is strictly prohibited without written permission of the Transportation Research Board of the National Academy of Sciences. Unless otherwise indicated, all materials in this PDF are copyrighted by the National Academy of Sciences. Copyright © National Academy of Sciences. All rights reserved

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First International Symposium of Advanced Train Control

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Accuracy; Automatic train control; Computer graphics; Horsepower; Management information systems; On time performance; Positive train control; Real time control; Real time data processing

Canadian National; Canadian National Railways

Design; Highways; Maintenance and Preservation; Railroads

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• ADVANCED ATP SYSTEM FOR IMPROVING TRAIN TRAFFIC DENSITY AND CONTROL EFFICIENCY
• ADVANCED TRAIN CONTROL SYSTEMS CONTROL FLOW DEVELOPMENT AND VALIDATION
• ADVANCES IN FLAT PANEL DISPLAY TECHNOLOGY AND APPLICABILITY TO ATCS ON-BOARD TERMINALS
• ASTREE: A GLOBAL COMMAND, CONTROL, AND COMMUNICATION SYSTEM
• ATCS AT CP RAIL--STEADY AND MEASURED
• AUSTRAC: THE AUSTRALIAN ATCS
• AUTOMATIC TRAIN PROTECTION ON BRITISH RAIL: PRESENT PLANS AND FUTURE POSSIBILITIES
• Decision Support System for Train Dispatching: An Optimization-Based Methodology
• DEVELOPMENT OF A WAYSIDE DETECTOR OPEN COMMUNICATION STANDARD
• ESSENTIAL ELEMENTS OF SYSTEM INTEGRATION
• IMPROVEMENT OF ATCS OPERATIONAL SAFETY AND EFFICIENCY THROUGH HUMAN FACTORS APPLICATIONS
• INTEGRATION OF ATCS WITH MIS
• MANAGEMENT AND INFORMATION SYSTEMS COMPONENTS OF SUCCESSFUL ATCS
• MICROPROCESSOR DIAGNOSTIC SYSTEM FOR HEAVY-HAUL TRAINS IN ACTUAL OPERATION
• MIGRATION FROM CONVENTIONAL SIGNALING TO NEXT-GENERATION TRAIN CONTROL
• OPERATION CONTROL AND SIGNALING SYSTEM FOR HIGH-SPEED LINES
• PERFORMANCE AND CAPACITY ANALYSIS OF AN OPERATING ATCS COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM
• PILOT SYSTEM OF CARAT ON THE SANYO SHINKANSEN LINE
• PROTOTYPE AND TEST ENVIRONMENT FOR ATCS DATA COMMUNICATIONS
• RAILROAD OPERATION USING THE ADVANCED TRAIN CONTROL SYSTEM
• TRAIN CONTROL ON FRENCH RAILROADS
• UIC EUROPEAN TRAIN CONTROL SYSTEM
• VALUE OF HIGH-QUALITY SERVICE: HOW SHOULD THE ARES-EQUIPPED RAILROAD OPERATE?
• VERIFICATION AND VALIDATION FOR ADVANCED TRAIN CONTROL SYSTEMS