The Pooling of Freight Cars

Scheduling railway freight cars

It is dif®cult to allocate the freight cars and to determine how to load the several varieties of goods into them. In order to improve ef®ciency, a knowledge-based system (KBS) is developed and integrated into the existing railway information system. This paper introduces the development of the system and the framework in which the KBS are integrated into the existing system environments. Under...

Routing Cars in Rail Freight Service

Numerical and Experimental Analysis of Nonlinear Parabolic Springs Employed in Suspension System of freight cars

Nonlinear vibration of parabolic springs employed in suspension system of a freight car has been studied in this paper. First, dynamical behavior of the springs is investigated by using finite element method and the obtained results are then used in vibration analysis of a railway freight car. For this purpose, dynamics of a parabolic spring subjected to a cyclic excitation has been studied ...

A Reinforcement Learning System for Transfer Scheduling of Freight Cars in a Train

In this paper, a Q-Learning method for trasfer scheduling of freight cars in a train is proposed. In the proposed method, the number of freight-movements in order to line freights in the desired order is reflected by evaluation value for each pair of freight-layout and removal-destination at a freight yard. The best transfer scheduling can be derived by selecting the removal-action of freight t...

A Fast Potential Fault Regions Locating Method Used in Inspecting Freight Cars

The trouble of freight car detection system (TFDS) is a popular application in Chinese railway today. In this paper, the discrete-point sampling model is further developed to locate potential fault regions in the photos taken by the TFDS. The discrete-point sampling model not only contains the image’s region boundary information and region information, but also reflects the transition from regi...