Eastside Light Rail Authority
Abstract Representation of Realtime Rail Kinetics Through a Closed Photoionization Process
Eastside Light Rail Experiment v1.1
This document describes the first in a series of experiments that will be carried out by the scientists, artists, engineers, and architects contracted by the Eastside Light Rail Authority that seeks to advance the understanding of local rail impact through basic research.
In order to understand the impact of rail traffic responsible for isolating participation between the urban core of the rising city and the Eastside, advanced cloud visualization techniques must be scaled up for the long distance signaling and communication of collected data so that external forces can be applied and directed for appropriate responses to the current rail environment. Given improved visibility additional funding can be secured for an active reduction at a municipal scale of disruption by unmonitored rail activity.
For precise detection of rail activity, a location for data sampling has been selected with overhead line-of-sight access to rail conditions. Using an array of wireless sensors, accurate measurements can be recorded, broadcast, and processed through a data matrix filter for instant display of changes in speed, sound levels, and vibration. Machine vision techniques can infer vector data for cross-multiplication of the matrix to generate richer interference patterns resulting in visual density for faster transmission of complex data sets with the changing environment.
Passive Infrared Motion2. Acoustic-to-electric transducer3. Accelerometer4. Digital Camera5. Input Parameters6. Bell pattern, sound level7. Horn pattern, sound level8. Engine sound level9. Restart sound level10. Unit quantity, velocity, length, type, elevation11. Vehicular Path Interruption duration12. Date, Timestamp13. Vibrational Energy
Frequency2. Intensity3. Duration4. Pattern5. Zoom6. X-axis Rotation7. Y-axis Rotation8. Strobe
Diagram A
One element holding back Eastside development is a rail line that severs a large portion of the city, east to southeast, from the urban core. Attempts were made using CITY INITIATED TAX INCREMENT REINVESTMENT ZONE - Inner City #11 to silence a large section of rail starting at Sherman Street to the north, but the project stopped short of completing the intended goal of Essex Street. Using arrays of sensors, patterns of light will be computer generated from current train activity and displayed from a building onto the tracks to draw attention to the issue.
In partnership with and sponsored by TrainQuietZone.com.