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Title: Safety of high speed guided ground transportation systems: Magnetic and electric field testing of the Washington Metropolitan Area transit authority metrorail system. Volume 1. Analysis. Final report, September 1992-March 1993

Abstract

The safety of magnetically levitated (maglev) and high speed rail (HSR) trains proposed for application in the United States is the responsibility of the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA). Plans for near future US applications include maglev technology (e.g. in Orlando, FL and Pittsburgh, PA) and high speed rail (e.g. the French Train a Grande Vitesse (TGV) in the Texas Triangle, between Dallas-Fort Worth, Houston and San Antonio, and along five designated high speed corridors). Concerns exist regarding the potential safety, environmental and health effects on the public and on transportation workers due to electrification along new or existing rail corridors, and to maglev and high speed rail operations. Therefore, the characterization of electric and magnetic fields (EMF) produced by both steady (dc) and alternating currents (ac) at power frequency (50 Hz in Europe and 60 Hz in the U.S.) and above, in the Extreme Low Frequency (ELF) range (3-3000 Hz) is of interest. An EMF survey of the Washington Metrorail (WMATA) transit system was performed, as part of a comprehensive comparative EMF safety assessment of the German Transrapid (TR-07) maglev system with other existing and advanced rail systems. The report provides the Analysis (Vol. I) of results, and detailed datamore » and statistical summaries (Vol. II, Appendices) of representative EMF profiles on vehicles and facilities typical of this transit electrotechnology (third rail dc). EMF data represent a range of train operating conditions and locations (in vehicles, stations and waysides), as well as in traffic control and electrical power supply facilities.« less

Authors:
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Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Electric Research and Management, Inc., State College, PA (United States)
OSTI Identifier:
5886108
Report Number(s):
PB-94-102472/XAB
Resource Type:
Technical Report
Resource Relation:
Other Information: See also PB--92-224666 and PB--92-224674
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
32 ENERGY CONSERVATION, CONSUMPTION, AND UTILIZATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; SURVEYS; LEVITATED TRAINS; SAFETY ENGINEERING; EUROPE; HEALTH HAZARDS; MAGNETIC FIELDS; NATIONAL GOVERNMENT; PITTSBURGH; PLANNING; RAIL TRANSPORT; RAPID TRANSIT SYSTEMS; STATISTICAL DATA; TEXAS; TRAFFIC CONTROL; TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS; WASHINGTON DC; CONTROL; DATA; DEVELOPED COUNTRIES; ENGINEERING; HAZARDS; INFORMATION; LAND TRANSPORT; NORTH AMERICA; NUMERICAL DATA; PENNSYLVANIA; TRAINS; TRANSPORT; URBAN AREAS; USA; VEHICLES; 320202* - Energy Conservation, Consumption, & Utilization- Transportation- Railway

Citation Formats

Dietrich, F M, Papas, P N, Jacobs, W L, and Ferro, W E. Safety of high speed guided ground transportation systems: Magnetic and electric field testing of the Washington Metropolitan Area transit authority metrorail system. Volume 1. Analysis. Final report, September 1992-March 1993. United States: N. p., 1993. Web.
Dietrich, F M, Papas, P N, Jacobs, W L, & Ferro, W E. Safety of high speed guided ground transportation systems: Magnetic and electric field testing of the Washington Metropolitan Area transit authority metrorail system. Volume 1. Analysis. Final report, September 1992-March 1993. United States.
Dietrich, F M, Papas, P N, Jacobs, W L, and Ferro, W E. 1993. "Safety of high speed guided ground transportation systems: Magnetic and electric field testing of the Washington Metropolitan Area transit authority metrorail system. Volume 1. Analysis. Final report, September 1992-March 1993". United States.
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title = {Safety of high speed guided ground transportation systems: Magnetic and electric field testing of the Washington Metropolitan Area transit authority metrorail system. Volume 1. Analysis. Final report, September 1992-March 1993},
author = {Dietrich, F M and Papas, P N and Jacobs, W L and Ferro, W E},
abstractNote = {The safety of magnetically levitated (maglev) and high speed rail (HSR) trains proposed for application in the United States is the responsibility of the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA). Plans for near future US applications include maglev technology (e.g. in Orlando, FL and Pittsburgh, PA) and high speed rail (e.g. the French Train a Grande Vitesse (TGV) in the Texas Triangle, between Dallas-Fort Worth, Houston and San Antonio, and along five designated high speed corridors). Concerns exist regarding the potential safety, environmental and health effects on the public and on transportation workers due to electrification along new or existing rail corridors, and to maglev and high speed rail operations. Therefore, the characterization of electric and magnetic fields (EMF) produced by both steady (dc) and alternating currents (ac) at power frequency (50 Hz in Europe and 60 Hz in the U.S.) and above, in the Extreme Low Frequency (ELF) range (3-3000 Hz) is of interest. An EMF survey of the Washington Metrorail (WMATA) transit system was performed, as part of a comprehensive comparative EMF safety assessment of the German Transrapid (TR-07) maglev system with other existing and advanced rail systems. The report provides the Analysis (Vol. I) of results, and detailed data and statistical summaries (Vol. II, Appendices) of representative EMF profiles on vehicles and facilities typical of this transit electrotechnology (third rail dc). EMF data represent a range of train operating conditions and locations (in vehicles, stations and waysides), as well as in traffic control and electrical power supply facilities.},
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year = {Tue Jun 01 00:00:00 EDT 1993},
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