The energy consumed by battery freight trains increases by 5% (241-km range) because of the additional battery weight but it is still about half the energy consumed by diesel trains owing to the high efficiency of all-electric drives. After accounting for the average energy intensity of the se...
In January, Union Pacific tested a 3.5-mile long ",monster", train, using extra locomotives to distribute power efficiently. Just what are monster trains, and how are they different from conventional...
This can be tackled in our approach by optimiz- ing the prices for each container such that all contain- ers are transported, which corresponds to introducing penalty terms to non-delivered containers, which might be alternatively shipped by trucks. This could be real- ized by either directly ...
Looking across the various sectors for which there are clear opportunities for natural gas to substitute for oil – specifically bunker fuel for ships, natural gas vehicles (NGVs) replacing primarily gasoline-powered light duty vehicles (LDVs), heavy duty trucks both in and ex-US, power generati...
system100may be implemented as an LDT, including a multiple number of train cars106A-106C. More generally, the transport system100may include any mobile chained transport system, including, but not limited to, multi-car trains (e.g., FIG. 1), chained buses, chained trucks, and chained ...