SYSTEM OF AND METHOD TO CONTROL SHUNTING OPERATIONS IN ELECTRIC DEPOT OF MONORAIL TRANSPORT SYSTEM Russian patent published in 2005 - IPC

FIELD: railway transport; signaling and communication.

SUBSTANCE: proposed group of invention relates to railway automatic controls and is designed for shunting of electric trains and complies with specific requirements to monorail transport system. Electric depot of monorail transport system consists of outer and inner parking tracks for electric trains before entrance and exit gates and inside depot and also transborder. Control line contains digital computer complex connected by communication lines with stationary and mobile control objects outside and inside depot and furnished with subscriber devices and transmit-receive antenna distributed along parking tracks and make in form of radio radiating cables, and stationary and mobile control objects state pickups, stationary and mobile devices generating control signals and system to determine position of electric trains. Stationary control objects are assembled into device representing mimic diagram of depot, alarm bell drive, gate and transborder drives, light signals. Mobile control objects are grouped in electric trains, on parking tracks outside and inside depot and on transborder. Stationary devices for generating control signals are grouped in workstations with stationary control panels, and mobile control signal generating devices, in carry-on remote control panels of depot operator on duty and control cabin of electric train. Stationary control objects, state pickups found of said objects, workstations and system to determine position of electric train are connected with computer complex by wire and/or wireless communication lines by means of access units, and mobile control objects are connected with computer complex by wireless communication lines through access units. Method to control shunting operations in electric depot of monorail transport system includes three steps: receiving of electric train at depot from route of monorail transport system, departing of electric train from depot to route of monorail transport system and re-positioning of electric train inside depot. Depot dispatcher, operator on duty and electric train driver are engaged in said operations.

EFFECT: improved shunting in depot of monorail transport system owing to optimization of control.

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