Development of an Energy System Simulator for a Personal Rapid Transit (PRT) Vehicle

초록

An exclusive energy system simulator for Korean PRT (Personal Rapid Transit) which is currently being developed at KRRI (Korea Railroad Research Institute) since 2012 is presented in this study. The simulator is implemented based on the TPS (Train Performance Simulation) software designed by KRRI in the past. In particular, the Korean PRT simulator includes an energy analysis algorithm to consider the operating characteristics of the PRT vehicle. It is very important to monitor the energy status of a vehicle running on a network of routes and to analyze the energy consumption for the evaluation of the applicability of the energy supply system.