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International Railway Industry Standard

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Despite the existence of many other forms of transportation, many jobs can still be found in the railway industry in 2008. A simple web search turns up many sites advertising for rail jobs, railroad jobs, or railway jobs worldwide. The positions range from traditional train oriented jobs to more clerical ones in the train lines' offices. As with any other industry, pay ranges from a volunteer job or internship to a full time career complete with salary and benefits. In the United States, we expect the trend of train travel to grow as more people are using trains to commute to and from work as well as travel on leisure time.

Many regional and tourist railroads, which generally operate on small sections of track no longer used for shipping freight, hire volunteers at first. These rail jobs range from office workers who set up the tours on the trains to the engineers on the trains themselves and costumed conductors who ride the train with the guests. The organizational staff in the office answers the telephone, helping to book special events like birthday parties on the train as well as selling tickets to regularly scheduled excursions and answering guests' questions about the events. Some of these volunteers later earn their way into paid positions as ridership increases and they have remained with the railway for a few seasons. The guests of these scenic railways enjoy talking with the costumed conductors and the other workers who ride along. Some of the workers are purely train enthusiasts who take the excursions and narrate tours for guests, while others are paid historians who write the narrations.

Obviously, both the tourist trains and the large passenger and freight systems do hire people of the same job descriptions. Both types of railway need engineers to operate the trains. These essential railway jobs, of course, would receive higher pay and benefits due to the vast amounts of training that the applicant would need to possess to do the jobs. e.g. a person wishing to become a locomotive engineer will often train first as a brakeman or conductor while learning to operate the train during the period of on the job and classroom training. This specialized training is only allowed to be completed by men and women at least 21 years of age who are in good physical health who have graduated high school. As of 1992, engineers for trains are only certified when they prove that they not only handle trains safely, but also possess clean driving records with other vehicles, are drug and alcohol free, and have the necessary visual and hearing acuity in addition to having successfully completed all of the training and testing set forth by the government.

Mechanics to keep the trains in working order are also necessary for the survival of the railways. Because of the nature and size of a train engine, prior training in diesel mechanics is crucial for those wishing to work in this field. This rail job also requires at least a high school education to enter into training and once the applicant has trained for it, he or she can become employed full or part time repairing the engines. A logical way to begin training for this type of position could even include studying engine maintenance and repair at a technical school while attending high school, moving on to more specialized training and apprenticeships in train engine repair after graduating from the technical school.

Without track construction and maintenance, no passengers or freight could arrive at their destinations on time. This line of work encompasses many people, from those who inspect the tracks and train cars for safety to those who do the actual construction and repair. Project managers with specialized companies perform the inspections and recommend how the rail company should clean the track or detail what parts of the track need to be repaired and how in order to keep functioning. Some of these companies also rent to the railroads the tools necessary to perform the tasks. Inspections are tailored to each railroad based on what it transports and how frequently trains run on each track. These inspectors, and the planners who design the railways, must take training in civil engineering to learn how to plan out the rails and bridges to be safe in the area in which they are built before giving the plans to the people who will execute them. Both on paper and in the building, the tracks need to be horizontally and vertically set for the type of terrain the train will travel to make its journeys efficient and save the railroad money on operating costs. The inspectors and repairmen on the line must be highly skilled at fixing only what needs it at the time to preserve this efficiency as well.

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International Railway Industry Standard

Railroads face a complex set of economic and operational challenges like competitive freight pricing, asset utilization and competition with trucking, capital expenditure levels, industry consolidation and debt management. Technology applications from GAORFID can aid the rail industry to evolve business solutions in enhancing revenue growth while reducing cost through efficient operations, maintenance, asset utilization and capacity management.

The GAO RFID systems technology provides exact location and status of any individual objectives mentioned above, and predicts their dynamic changes from the system, particularly the change of rail-wagon throughput at the marshalling sites, interface between local railways, confine interface. This enables timely, accurate and integral information and decision assistance for the management of train transportation and the customer. The system contains the sub-systems of Confirmation, Freight Billing, Transportation Planning, Train Marshalling, Train Dispatching, Real-time Tracking of Train and Container, Prediction of Train Throughput and Revenue Run, etc. GAO RFID provides end-to-end Railroad / Transit application management services

APPLICATIONS

a) A GAO RFID Railway system is available in a number of configurations designed to economically meet a full range of service requirements. Reader systems provide automated tracking of railcars via RFID tags, and make railcar location information available to railroads for asset management and other purposes.

b) Traffic and Passenger Information: The system provides accurate and reliable information about where a train is located. This real-time information is forwarded to IT systems and used to update the passenger information displays at stations and terminals.

c) Operation and Maintenance: Precise information about the configuration of wagons within a train can be provided automatically by the system. This information can be integrated with other systems such as track inspection systems, so that the recorded information can be automatically matched to the actual wagon, thus eliminating errors.

d) Location of the Train: The System with the help of the reader determines the location of the train by reading the tag identity as the train passes over the tag at speed. This location data is transferred to the onboard system and can be used to update passenger information automatically

e) Controlling and Positioning of Trains: Some onboard systems require a precise position of the train, for example to control stopping positions. The reader accurately reports the position when the train passes over an ID-tag.

In combination with requirements new applications can be rapidly prototyped and deployed. In addition to the standard configuration, our team of experienced engineers can design systems to meet specific application requirements. Some of the customized applications developed to integrate with the system

1. Track Inspection System

2. Signal Asset Tracking System

3. Safety Audit

4. Inventory and Maintenance

5. Equipment Distribution and Management

6. Car Accounting Systems

7. Rail Yard Information Management

FEATURES/BENEFITS

a) The System stores tag data including time, date, train direction and speed.

b) It also responds to inquiries via modem and interfaces to scales, video systems and diagnostic and monitoring devices.

c) Timely data to increase capacity, speed, automation and operational flexibility

d) Arrival and departure data for signal and control operations

GAO Products for demanding RAIL RFID Applications

RFID technology developed a range of readers and ID-tags that fulfils the tough requirements of the rail industry. These products are used worldwide in railway applications which require identification and positioning at high speed, with high precision and in demanding environments.

GAO ID-tags

The ID-tags are mounted on the front, side, top or underneath each individual vehicle or on the sleepers in special tag fixings. The ID-tag is an extremely resistant, totally encapsulated and maintenance free. It has a predictable life of 6, 8 or 10 years, depending on model.

GAO Fixed Reader

Standard readers are suitable for Rail track-side installations. Readers can be installed at key locations such as stations, terminal entrances or maintenance locations. The reader identifies the ID-tag at a range of up to 6 meters and at passage speeds of up to 300km/h.

GAO Handheld Reader

The Handheld a 2.45 GHz RFID reader. The versatility of the industrial PDA together with the flexibility of RFID technology makes the Handheld reader an ideal supplement to stationary readers in applications such as train maintenance. The reader allows for quick and reliable on-the-spot identification and verification of objects such as wagons.

GAO Heavy Duty reader

Heavy Duty readers are ruggedized, designed to withstand environmental factors such as temperature, moisture, shock and vibration. This allows them to be mounted directly on the outside of vehicles. This reader can be used to provide positioning information for onboard systems on a train.

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