The Shinkansen is known to be a safe, reliable, mass and rapid public transportation system in Japan. This paper will discuss COMTRAC in the Shinkansen. First, the concept and technology of fail-safe in railways will be discussed. Second, COMTRAC and its fault-tolerant computer systems is explained. Finally, several kinds of field data accumulated during the past several years about COMTRAC are given, which will show its improvement in the availability.


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    Title :

    The design concepts and operational results of fault-tolerant computer systems for the Shinkansen train control


    Additional title:

    Die Entwurfskonzepte und betrieblichen Ergebnisse von fehlertoleranten Rechnersystemen für die Shinkansen-Zugsteuerung


    Contributors:


    Publication date :

    1993


    Size :

    10 Seiten, 12 Bilder, 1 Tabelle, 7 Quellen



    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    Print


    Language :

    English





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