Operating in a dynamic and competitive global market, railway companies have realized many years ago that better management of their logistical operations will enhance their strategic positions on the market. The financial component of daily operations is of utmost importance these days and many companies concluded that maximizing the profit relies on the integration of logistical activities with better income management. This paper presents a system consisting of three components: Ferodata BOX, Ferodata MOBILE, and Ferodata SYS, used to transmit to a web-server the status and operating information of an electric or diesel train. Train information includes data from locomotives, wagons, train driver, route, direction, fuel or electric consumption, speed, etc. All this information is processed in real-time and can be viewed in the web-server application. Additionally, the web-server application could manage and report details that are coming from the wagons, such as valuable information regarding the bogie wear, the identification of the wagons attached to a gasket, and identification the situations in which a wagon or group of wagons comes off the gasket configuration. All information about the status of trains is available on-line and at any moment the person responsible for management can use these data in their work.

The study proposes and analyses a new circuit of direct AC–AC converter that can perform a bidirectional energy flow. The authors calculated the equations governing the functioning of the circuit. The adequate functioning and high performance of the circuit (the efficiency and waveform of the absorbed input current) were tested both by simulation and experimentally.

This paper introduces a novel, high-accuracy method for determining the output voltage ripple in DC–DC converters. For the buck converter, the proposed approach enables accurate ripple estimation even under discontinuous conduction mode (DCM) operation. In the case of boost and buck–boost converters, this method not only facilitates ripple calculation in DCM but also enhances accuracy in continuous conduction mode (CCM), particularly near the transition boundary between CCM and DCM. The validity of the proposed method has been confirmed through both simulations and experimental measurements, with excellent agreement observed among theoretical, simulated, and experimental results.

Mobility was, and it is one of the most important topics in our life. The main device that it is used for mobility is the motor, and nowadays more and more importance is granted to electric motors. For controlling such an electric motor, we need an Electronic Speed Controller (ESC). Increasing the performance of an electronic speed controller also increase the precision of an electric motor and in this way the mobility is improved in this area.