Imperial College London

ProfessorArnabMajumdar

Faculty of EngineeringDepartment of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Professor of Transport Risk and Safety
 
 
 
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Contact

 

+44 (0)20 7594 6037a.majumdar

 
 
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Assistant

 

Ms Maya Mistry +44 (0)20 7594 6100

 
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Location

 

604Skempton BuildingSouth Kensington Campus

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Summary

 

Publications

Citation

BibTex format

@inproceedings{Damy:2016,
author = {Damy, S and Majumdar, A and Ochieng, WY},
pages = {1003--1014},
publisher = {Institute of Navigation},
title = {GNSS-based High Accuracy Positioning for Railway Applications},
year = {2016}
}

RIS format (EndNote, RefMan)

TY  - CPAPER
AB - The railway industry is facing a global increase in travel and freight demand, which requires extra capacity. Providing such capacity is limited by the current positioning systems used for railway traffic management. The past decade has seen a growing interest in GNSSbased positioning solutions for railway applications due to their global coverage, low cost and interoperability with existing systems. However, the railway operational environment presents a number of challenges to GNSS due to track side buildings, stations and tunnels which attenuate or block signals and generate multipath. This paper reviews the wide range of railway applications that can benefit from a GNSS-based enhanced positioning function, along with the existing requirements. It reviews the different positioning techniques that can be used and the different error sources the system has to deal with, including multipath. Finally it compares the effect of different multipath mitigation weighting techniques including elevation weighting, C/N0 weighting, residualbased weighting and multipath-based weighting. A novel adaptive weighting method based on the railway track geometry is introduced also and is compared to the current methods.
AU - Damy,S
AU - Majumdar,A
AU - Ochieng,WY
EP - 1014
PB - Institute of Navigation
PY - 2016///
SP - 1003
TI - GNSS-based High Accuracy Positioning for Railway Applications
ER -