Customer-owned battery energy storage systems (BESS) have been used to reduce electricity costs of energy storage owners (ESOs) under a time-of-use (TOU) tariff in Korea. However, the current TOU tariff can unintentionally induce customer’s electricity usage to have a negative impact on power systems. This paper verifies the impact of different BESS operation strategies on power systems under a...

This paper describes a railway system simulation to be used by train railway system operators. We have developed a learning tool for education, but, besides, different railway system models can be analyzed. Wedonot need to build the physical railway model, but may experiment with the planned system on the computer. The modeled system can be built easily and effectively and its behaviour may be ...

This paper provides a highly integrated solution approach for rolling stock planning problems in the context of intercity passenger traffic. The main contributions are a generic hypergraph based mixed integer programming model and an integrated algorithm for the considered rolling stock rotation planning problem. The new developed approach is able to handle a very large set of industrial railwa...

Operation of traction drive and auxiliary power supply converters installed onboard modern vehicles causes increased content of line harmonics and interharmonic components in the line current. Passive techniques for filtration of low frequency interference line currents appeared to be insufficient, but are combined with active mitigation techniques. The paper describes and suggests active suppr...

The objective of this paper is initially to present a basic modeling of the railway traction system. This model includes the basic technologies used today. The voltage dependencies of the maximal possible power consumption as well as the maximal velocity of the common Rc-locomotives are included. The latter is very crucial for the studies of time table sensitivity, which is of our immediate int...

Safety and security and considered a critical issue in railways. Applying geographic information system (GIS) and Global Positioning System (GPS) in the railway becomes very important. Web-based GIS makes it easy to exchange information and create better public communication through the Web site. It helps to plan for a trip by checking train times, stations and different lines between stations....

Railway yard is the basic composition unit of railways, therefore, the efficiency and quality of railway yard design have a crucial effect on the construction and operation of railways. Plane design is the basis and core of railway yard design, consequently, it is significant to research plane design of railway yard. In this study, through analysis and summary of the research status as well as ...

This paper analyses the quality of electricity in railway traction. Power quality characteristics have been measured as a case study in a traction sub-station in Tamil Nadu, India, where 1400 KVAR capacitor bank is installed. The actual data has been obtained through direct supply of traction load. Harmonics and various power quality problems are generated through the load of current. The emerg...