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Akhilesh Yadav

India

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Expertise

Questions related with railroad/Railway engineering, signal and communications systems, automatic train control and train protection systems.

Experience in the area

20 years with railroad signals and communication systems.

Organizations

Atkins Rail, Indian Railways

Publications

(1) Institution of Railway signal Engineers (2) Institution of Railway Signal & Telecom Engineers (India)

Education/Credentials

(1)Bachelor of Engineering from Motilal Nehru National Institute of Technology, Allahabad, India. - www.mnnit.ac.in (2) Trained in Signal engineering at Indian Railway Institute of Signal Engineering & Telecommuncation (IRISET), Secunderabad- www.iriset.ac.in (3) Trained in management of railway systems at Railway staff college Vadodara - www.rscbrc.ac.in

Awards and Honors

Multiple awards in Indian Railways and recognition by Atkins rail for playing a key role in design work for network rail projects.

Past/Present Clients

Indian railways, Network Rail, UK

What do you like about this subject?

Railway is the future of public transport. It is the safest mode of modern transport systems and has the best possible fuel efficiency vis-a-vis other modes like road/air. Trains are going to be an essential part of a carbon free world.

What do you still hope to achieve/learn in this field?

There is so much to learn in the world of railway systems specially in todays world when so many innovations and projects are going on world over to make Rail transport fastest, cheapest, safest and most environment friendly mode of transport.

Something interesting about this subject that others may not know:

Transport accounts for approximately 25 per cent of global carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions and needs far most attention in the climate change combat! To compare environmental impact of mode choices you make on a daily basis, please visit: http://www.uic.asso.fr/uic/spip.php?article552

Something controversial or provocative about this subject

Initial cost of infrastructure is high. System is quite complex with multiple departments required to co-operate & be all efficient at the same time to make the trains run on time.

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Recent Reviews from Users

User	Date	K	C	P	Comments
Terry	07/14/11	9	10	10	Many thanks for your reply, I
Jim Mocker	01/13/11	10	10	10	I wanted to thank Akhilesh very much .....
P.K.Sharma	11/03/10	10	10	10	Thanks for your answer sir,Hope we .....
Justine	09/27/10	10	10	10
Justine	09/26/10	10	8	10

Recent Answers from Akhilesh Yadav

2011-07-14 Axle Counters:

Terry, I have been hearing about Frauscher for last few years. Their product is highly modular and requires almost no track-side electronics (that's a big plus). They also keep innovating in sensing

2011-07-13 Axle Counters:

I have plenty experience with Thales but none so far with Frauscher. I will be evaluating frauscher for one of the projects in India very soon. Whatever information i have, they both appear comparable

2011-01-13 Locomotive sensor:

Dear Jim, I think you are looking for an specific application. If you can send me required functionality and objective from system you are trying to design, then i can suggest a solution which could be

2011-01-11 Locomotive sensor:

Wheel sensors are available from many manufacturers like Frauscher, Tiefenbach, Siemens etc. These devices can be fitted on the track and they sense when a wheel has passed that point of track.

2010-09-28 Axle Counter:

Well, axle counter has its pros and cons. It certainly can't detect track shunting ( any metal piece/wire making an electrical contact with the two rail of the same track) and rail breakage like track

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