Title :
Critical issues and open problems in the design of large transportation automation systems
Abstract :
The state of the art of design and implementation of large-scale railway automation systems is discussed. The topics addressed are signaling automation, planning and scheduling automation, software safety, and future trends. The optimal level of automation, from the point of view of making the best use of manpower and of computers, is discussed
Keywords :
railways; scheduling; signalling; transport computer control; large-scale railway automation systems; planning; scheduling; signaling automation; software safety; Automatic control; Computer industry; Computer science; Control systems; Design automation; Electric variables control; Electrical equipment industry; Large-scale systems; Processor scheduling; Rail transportation; Signal design; Software safety; Switches;
Conference_Titel :
Decision and Control, 1991., Proceedings of the 30th IEEE Conference on
Conference_Location :
Brighton
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-0450-0
DOI :
10.1109/CDC.1991.261151
