Publications related to Light rail

Safety Verification for Urban Air Mobility Scheduling

In Urban Air Mobility (UAM) networks, takeoff and landing sites, called vertiports, are likely to experience intermittent closures due to, e.g., adverse weather. For safety, it will be required that all in-transit Urban Air Vehicles (UAVs) in a UAM network ...

ELSEVIER2022

Microfluidic Device for Droplet Pairing by Combining Droplet Railing and Floating Trap Arrays

Philippe Renaud, Margaux Catherine Marie Duchamp, George Coukos, Alexandre Harari, Marion Arnaud

Droplet microfluidics are characterized by the generation and manipulation of discrete volumes of solutions, generated with the use of immiscible phases. Those droplets can then be controlled, transported, analyzed or their content modified. In this wide d ...

MDPI2021

The Upper Bound of the Speed of Propagation of Waves along a Transmission Line

Farhad Rachidi-Haeri, Marcos Rubinstein

According to theory, once certain conditions are fulfilled, current and voltage pulses propagate along ideal transmission lines with the speed of light. One can reach such a conclusion only when the conductors are assumed to be perfectly conducting, which ...

2020

Image Based Relighting of Cultural Artifacts

Niranjan Thanikachalam

By incorporating computational methods into the image acquisition pipeline, computational photography has opened up new avenues in the representation and visualization of real world objects in the digital world. For example, we can sample a scene under a f ...

EPFL2016

Made by China: the transformation of an African city : a visual exploration of the Light Rail Transit in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Alexandra Belinesh Thorer

Over the past two decades China has become increasingly involved in Africa. From rising trade and investment capital to a rapid climb in industrial and construction activity, a new foundation has been laid for Africaâ s development. While Africaâ s econo ...

EPFL2015

A Dynamic-Zone-Based Coordinated Ramp-Metering Algorithm With Queue Constraints for Minnesota's Freeways

Nikolaos Geroliminis

Following about 40 years of successful deployment of coordinated traffic-responsive ramp control, a new generation is being developed for Minnesota's freeways based on density measurements, rather than flow rates. This was motivated from recent research in ...

IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2011

Influence of the mechanical limitations of a traction system on energy storage design

Philippe Barrade

An innovative subway without supply rail is presented. This article deals with the sizing of the required on-board energy between two stations in the worst case. The influence of the mechanical limitations is studied: acceleration, jerk and torque limitati ...

Elsevier2010

ARCHES D14 - Recommendations for the use of UHPFRC in composite structural members – rehabilitation Log Čezsoški bridge

Emmanuel Denarié, Guillaume Habert

The increasing volume of European transport urgently requires an effective road and rail system in Central European and Eastern Countries (CEEC) with a major investment in building new and assessing and rehabilitating old structures. Following 5 successful ...

MCS/EU2009

Assistance énergétique à base de supercondensateurs pour véhicules à propulsion électrique et hybride

Blaise Destraz

So far in the Twenty-first century the field of people transportation has had numerous setbacks, of these some are related to air pollution and some to the rarefaction of petroleum sources. Studies have been undertaken within this domain for many years now ...

EPFL2008

Flexible Slow and Fast Light in Optical Fibers

Luc Thévenaz, Sang Hoon Chin, Kwang-Yong Song

A method to achieve an extremely wide and flexible control of the group velocity in an optical fiber using stimulated Brillouin scattering is presented. Group velocities below 71,000 km/s on one hand, well exceeding the speed of light in vacuum on the othe ...

IEEE2006

A new interleaved multi-channel DC/DC converter specially dedicated to low voltage, high current applications

Alfred Rufer, Philippe Barrade, Blaise Destraz

Making transportation systems more energy efficient is one of the key challenge in this century. This paper presents a solution for increasing the efficiency of an electrical scooter by adding a supercapacitive energy storage in parallel to the original ba ...

2006

Light controlling light in an optical fibre: from very slow to faster-than-light speed

Luc Thévenaz, Kwang-Yong Song

We demonstrate a method to achieve an extremely wide and flexible external control of the group velocity of signals as they propagate along an optical fibre. This control is achieved by means of the gain and loss mechanisms of stimulated Brillouin scatteri ...

Faculté Polytechnique de Mons2005