Study on essential characteristics of RITS

Many challenges have been faced by traditional China railway transportation including macro-aspects and micro-aspects such as high-speed, high density, complex social requirements and so on. With the help of information technologies, an intelligent rail transportation system is proposed. In this paper, the essential characteristics of RITS are discussed which include: openness of architecture/structure, distributability of system structure and intelligent attributes and behavior of the system. It can be concluded that integration system paradigm methodology will play a critical role in the course of RITS research.