Automation and Control in Transport

✍ Scribed by F. T. Barwell (Auth.)

• Publisher: Pergamon Press
• Year: 1973
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 266
• Edition: 1st
• Category: Library

✦ Table of Contents

Content:
Inside Front Cover, Page ii
Front Matter, Page iii
Copyright, Page iv
Foreword, Pages ix-x
Preface, Pages xi-xii
Notation, Pages xiii-xiv
CHAPTER 1 - Dynamic Systems, Pages 1-17
CHAPTER 2 - Route Capacity – Laws for Vehicle Following, Pages 18-30
CHAPTER 3 - Control of Vehicle Spacing – Railway Signalling, Pages 31-40
CHAPTER 4 - Problems of Congestion – Traffic Regulation, Pages 41-51
CHAPTER 5 - Computer Aids to Operation – Traffic Surveillance and Control, Pages 52-62
CHAPTER 6 - Measurement of Power – Analogue Computing, Pages 63-75
CHAPTER 7 - Vehicle Detection, Pages 76-83
CHAPTER 8 - Vehicle Identification, Pages 84-88
CHAPTER 9 - Communication of Control Signals to Moving Vehicles, Pages 89-101
CHAPTER 10 - Interlocking – Sequence Control, Pages 102-106
CHAPTER 11 - Sorting and Marshalling, Pages 107-111
CHAPTER 12 - Control of Acceleration and Power, Pages 112-145
CHAPTER 13 - Control of Braking, Pages 146-158
CHAPTER 14 - Steering – Directional Stability, Pages 159-176
CHAPTER 15 - Automatic Railways, Pages 177-191
CHAPTER 16 - Possibilities for the Future, Pages 192-222
APPENDIX I - Theory of Control, Pages 223-247
APPENDIX II - The S.I. Units (Système International d'Unités), Pages 248-250
Name Index, Pages 251-252
Subject Index, Pages 253-257