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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Alternate Mobile/Handheld Reader
ORDR EQUIPMENT INIT CAR# EAST DIR LATITUDE LONGITUDE STATUS
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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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Software Defined Radio (SDR)
• Decoding radio signals
in outLow Pass
Filter in outFast Fourier Transform
Raspberry Pi
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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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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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