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Title: ECONOMIC DESIGN METHODS FOR AUTOMATED MINIYARDS
Accession Number: 00455833
Record Type: Component
Availability: Find a library where document is available Abstract: Changing traffic patterns and operating methods will continue to reduce the number of cars to be classified in yards. This trend promotes a need for economically designed, built, and operated miniyards. Such small-scale yards can be designed in ladder track or balloon formation, both with minihumps and suitable for 1,000 to 2,000 cars per day throughput. To attain low-cost, efficient operation of these yards they will need to be automated in an economical manner with automatic route setting and simple car speed control. The system described in this paper could control the humping procedure to give continuous, discontinuous, and manual modes of car throughput as appropriate to the measured rollability category and track address for each car.
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Monograph Title: Monograph Accession #: 01419449
Authors: Melhuish, Arthur WEditors: Kaplan, Elizabeth WPagination: pp 45-48
Publication Date: 1985
Serial: ISBN: 0309039215
Media Type: Print
Features: Figures
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TRT Terms: Uncontrolled Terms: Subject Areas: Administration and Management; Design; Economics; Highways; Railroads; Terminals and Facilities
Files: TRIS, TRB
Created Date: May 31 1986 12:00AM
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