The last decade of spiraling increases in fuel prices has led the railroad industry to renewed interest in studying train resistance. Under the auspices of the Association of American Railroads (AAR), an energy program has been directed towards analytical, laboratory and field test studies to better understand train resistance components and to develop tools to reduce them. Part of the analytical approach is to develop a mathematical model to simulate train operation and predict fuel consumption. Such a model has been developed from fundamentals of train resistance and locomotive characteristics. Assumptions made in developing the model, and features and capabilities of the model are described along with the approaches used. Applications of the model are demonstrated by a simulation study.
Train energy model (TEM) a state-of-the art simulator for predicting the fuel consumption of a train
Zugenergiemodell (ZEM). Ein dem Stand der Technik entsprechender Simulator zur Berechnung des Kraftstoffverbrauches eines Zuges
ASME-Papers ; Nov ; 1-10
1985
10 Seiten, 14 Bilder, 4 Tabellen, 11 Quellen
Conference paper
English
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