This paper documents the results of a project undertaken by the Center for Transportation Research of Argonne National Laboratory to accomplish the following objectives: (1) assemble reliable and current information available in published or unpublished form on measures to conserve petroleum fuel in the United States rail carrier industry; (2) update and, as necessary, revise this information based on direct interaction with experts in the rail industry, government, and academia; and (3) prepare and distribute throughout the US rail industry a concise, comprehensive summary of this information in the format of a chart, or matrix of fuel saving measures. The final product of this project, a Rail Energy Efficiency Measures Matrix (hereafter, the matrix), was distributed to over 120 United States domestic rail carriers late in 1982. Central to the effort expended in developing this matrix, and indispensable to its content, was a meeting held in Chicago, Illinois, in February 1982 to coordinate the views and findings of railway operations supervisors, fuel conservation officers, and researchers from both the rail industry and US universities. The discussions which follow present the organizational format of the matrix, its component elements (fuel savings measures and strategies), and important contrasts regarding these elements between information found in the literature the collective viewpoint of the experts who attended the February 1982 meeting. A final section presents the measures found to be most important by consensus of these experts. (ERA citation 08:044089)


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    Title :

    Identification and Condenstion of Railway Fuel-Savings Measures and Strategies


    Contributors:
    C. L. Saricks (author) / K. M. Bertram (author) / J. E. Smith (author)

    Publication date :

    1983


    Size :

    21 pages


    Type of media :

    Report


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English





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