Disruptive Technologies in Railroading, presented by Dan Rubin

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Disruptive Technologies in RailroadingDan Rubin

Union Pacific Railroad

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Fast Facts• Commodity

Revenue $15.5 B

• Route Miles 32,200 in 23 States

• Employees 49,000

• Annual Payroll $3.9 B

• Customers 25,000

• Locomotives 8,700

Union Pacific System

Portland

Oakland

LA

Calexico

Nogales El Paso

Seattle

Eagle Pass

SLC

Eastport

Brownsville

Houston

KC

St. Louis

Omaha

Twin Cities

Duluth

Denver

Laredo

Dallas

Memphis

Chicago

New Orleans

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Freight Revenue

17%Agricultural

Products16%

Chemicals

18%Industrial

Products9%Auto

20%Intermodal

20%Energy

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Class I Railroads

• Rail's share of the US freight market is about 43% (The Economist, 2010)

• Total US freight moved per year: 6 trillion ton-miles

• Class I railroads move: 1.7 trillion ton-miles

• Union Pacific alone moves more than 0.5 trillion ton-miles (about 9 million carloads)

Sources: DOT, AAR, UP fact book

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Locomotives

Cars

• Typical Horse Power of a long-haul locomotive: 4000 HP (Toyota Camry: 178 HP)

• Typical weight of a train: 3,000 – 8,000 tons (Toyota Camry: 1.5 tons)

• Typical train length: 90 cars + 2 locomotives ( ~ 1 mile long)

• Average freight per car: 63 tons (91,000 bottles of beer)

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Trackside Sensors

Low Air Hose Detector

Infrared Sensors Microphones Ultrasonic Sensors

Wheel Profile Lasers Strain Gauges

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Recent and Current R&D Initiatives

• Smart Train Inspection

• Robotic Equipment Handling at Yards

• Ultrasonic Wheel Inspection System

• Motes and Energy Harvesting

• Other R&D Projects

• Positive Train Control

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Manual Inspection

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Smart Train Inspection Site

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Detect Train Presence

Wheel Detectors

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Wheel Detectors

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Cameras

Area Scan Camera

2014

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High Frame Rate Cameras

Line Scan Camera

2014

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LiDAR

3D Vision

2014

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Automated Inspection

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Inspection GUI

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Prototype Robotic System

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Ultrasonic Cracked Wheel Detection

• Detects internal wheel cracks

• Inspects over 500,000 wheels annually

• Annually about 100 wheels are replaced which would have gone undetected otherwise

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• Positive Train control

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Motes

SS SS SS SS SS SS

GatewayMotesSensors

Linear Topology

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Train Consist Reader Technology

Existing Technology

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Alternate Mobile/Handheld Reader

ORDR EQUIPMENT INIT CAR# EAST DIR LATITUDE LONGITUDE STATUS

56 Tank GETX 2346 1 NW 41.2489 -95.8859 OUT OF SEQUENCE! -------------------55 Tank CRGX 29459 2 NW 41.2487 -95.8857 OUT OF SEQUENCE! -------------------54 Gondola TILX 42613 3 NW 41.2486 -95.8855 OUT OF SEQUENCE! -------------------53 Gondola BN 534077 4 NW 41.2485 -95.8854 OUT OF SEQUENCE! -------------------52 Gondola BN 534731 5 NW 41.2484 -95.8853 OUT OF SEQUENCE! -------------------50 Gondola BN 534575 6 WNW 41.2483 -95.8851 OUT OF SEQUENCE! -------------------49 Gondola SBTX 33035 7 NW 41.2482 -95.885 OUT OF SEQUENCE! -------------------48 Gondola BN 534537 8 NW 41.2481 -95.8849 OUT OF SEQUENCE! -------------------46 Gondola SBTX 33173 9 NW 41.248 -95.8847 OUT OF SEQUENCE! -------------------45 Gondola SBTX 33207 10 NNW 41.2478 -95.8846 OUT OF SEQUENCE! -------------------44 Gondola BN 534688 11 NW 41.2477 -95.8845 OUT OF SEQUENCE! -------------------43 Gondola BN 534725 12 NNW 41.2476 -95.8844 OUT OF SEQUENCE! -------------------- Gondola TILX 42619 13 - - MISSING! ---------------------------- Gondola TILX 42611 14 - - MISSING! ---------------------------

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Drones

Send drones with a payload to inspect structures that are unsafe or difficult for humans to reach.

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3D Printer

For rapid prototyping

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Software Defined Radio (SDR)

• Decoding radio signals

in outLow Pass

Filter in outFast Fourier Transform

Raspberry Pi

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Positive Train ControlBuilding Safety • Government mandate

• Collision avoidance technology• Continually calculates braking distances• $2+B• Challenges

– Communications spectrum & coverage

– Interoperability

– Must install 12,000 wayside, 6,800 locomotive and 1,500 base station systems

Initialization

Track Database

Speed Restrictions

Work Zones

Train Consist

Movement Authorities

Braking Curve

Warning Curve

Predictive Braking

• Signals• Work Zones• Switches

• Speed Restrictions

WARNING: BRAKING IN 70 SECBRAKING IN PROGRESS

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Existing Onboard

MCP

Event Recorder

Fuel-On/Off

DVR

Health Monitoring Watt Meter

Auto Start/StopEMD’s FIRE

(& Integrated ER)

Pulse WDL Radio

Train Control

Train ControlDisplay(s)

220 MHz

Switch

GPS

SAT

WiFi

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Existing On-Board Technology

Advanced Ruggedized Computer (ARC)

Mobile Access Router (MAR)

Digital Cell

Clean Cab Radio(Locomotive Dispatch Radio)

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Next Generation

MCP

Event Recorder

Fuel-On/Off

DVR

Health MonitoringLTA/EOA Watt Meter

AESS

EMD’s FIRE(& Integrated ER)

Pulse WDL Radio

Train Control

Train ControlDisplay(s)

220 MHz

GPS

CELL

LIG

WiFi

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Antenna Farm

Existing Modified Roof

InstalledAccess

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Next Generation On-board TechnologyAncillary Card Cage (ACC)

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Wayside Platform (Messaging Server)

Required for PTC to support Wayside Integration

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Train Management Communication System

DPU

IP Network

DPU

PTC

EIC

Controller

PTC

DPU/CTC/EIC

EIC

Our future communication system?

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