A Study on Improvement of Loading/Unloading and Shunting System for Freight Train

초록

Rail freight for long-distance mass transportation has several advantages such as eco-friendliness and safety, but the accessibility to the train from the port or logistics facilities is restricted, requiring time and cost mainly due to complex procedure for loading/unloading and shunting. Moreover, reach stacker or transfer crane for loading and unloading containers at the freight railway facilities causes interference with catenary which have resulted in the operation of diesel locomotive-driven freight train without catenary at the container yard(CY) for safety reasons. Therefore, lower productivity, extra fuel cost and environmental pollutions by exhaust gas have been seeing in the freight rail industry. This paper, thus, introduces the status of freight railway and procedure for container handling at CY in Korea. Secondly, a new container handling procedure by using electric locomotive in the non-electrified section at CY will be proposed with the evaluation of technical alternatives which will enable electric locomotive to run in the non-electrified section.