Development of Railway Signaling System based on Network Technology

Author

Hirano, Yoshikuni ; Kato, Toshihiko ; Kunifuji, T. ; Hattori, Toshihiro ; Kato, Toshihiko

Author_Institution

R&D Center, East Japan Railway Co., Saitama

Volume

2

fYear

2005

fDate

12-12 Oct. 2005

Firstpage

1353

Lastpage

1358

Abstract

Much signaling equipment (e.g. signals, switching devices) are installed along railway tracks, and these are working in cooperation with each other, referring to other signaling equipment status. In today\´s railway signaling system, this information is transmitted using signal cables. Owing to this installation of signaling system itself, especially installation of signal cable, we have some problems on our conventional signaling system. The problems are 1st "high cost for construction", 2nd "many faults from mistakes in cable connection", and 3rd "much time for restoring when it has failed". To solve these problems we have developed a new signaling system based on network technology, utilizing Ethernet-passive optical network (E-PON). In this paper, we introduce this system, and define the requirements for securing safety, availability and environmental resistance of this system. Then we describe concrete techniques for realizing the requirements

Keywords

local area networks; optical fibre networks; railway engineering; railway safety; signalling; traffic engineering computing; E-PON; Ethernet-passive optical network; network technology; railway signaling system; signal cables; Availability; Cables; Communication system signaling; Control systems; Costs; Optical fiber networks; Personnel; Rail transportation; Railway safety; Signal restoration; Availability; E-PON; Network; Railway; Safety; Signaling;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Systems, Man and Cybernetics, 2005 IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Waikoloa, HI

Print_ISBN

0-7803-9298-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICSMC.2005.1571335

Filename

1571335