Title: A proposal of safety-related autonomous decentralised technology and its practical application

Authors: Takashi Kunifuji, Tadao Miura, Jun Nishiyama, Kinji Mori

Addresses: Research and Development Center of JR East Group, East Japan Railway Company, 2-479, Nisshin-cho, Kita-ku, Saitama-shi, Saitama 331-8513, Japan. ' Research and Development Center of JR East Group, East Japan Railway Company, 2-479, Nisshin-cho, Kita-ku, Saitama-shi, Saitama 331-8513, Japan. ' Research and Development Center of JR East Group, East Japan Railway Company, 2-479, Nisshin-cho, Kita-ku, Saitama-shi, Saitama 331-8513, Japan. ' Tokyo Institute of Technology, 2-12-1 Ookayama, Meguro-ku, Tokyo 152-8550, Japan

Abstract: Recently, the amount of construction about railway signalling system is steadily increasing to improve the transport services for the customer. But at present, efficiency of signal construction is very low. Because the period for the construction is limited to very short time at mid-night, flexibility of the signalling system is low from its system architecture and so on. To solve these problems, we are now grappling with the innovation of the railway signalling system. In this paper, safety-related autonomous decentralised technology is proposed. And as its practical application, the network signalling system is described.

Keywords: railway signalling control; network signalling; autonomous distributed systems; safety; railway signals.

DOI: 10.1504/IJCCBS.2011.041256

International Journal of Critical Computer-Based Systems, 2011 Vol.2 No.2, pp.125 - 140

Published online: 11 Mar 2015 *

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