COMMUNICATIONS AND COMPUTERS: THE TOOLS ARE GETTING SHARPER

Railroad application of electronics in the form of communications and computers is expanding rapidly. While much of the new technology is a general advance of state-of-the-art, railroads have quickly applied it to their telecommunications, signaling and management information systems. The status of train radio, telephone switching, microwave, data transmission, fiber optics, computer applications, intercomputer data exchange, automatic car identification, computer-assisted dispatching and AAR Train II discussed. Railroads are successfully utilizing both the centralized and distributed data processing techniques, matching them with appropriate telecommunications systems.

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• Corporate Authors:

  Simmons-Boardman Publishing Corporation

  508 Birch Street
  Bristol, CT  United States  06010
• Publication Date: 1980-8-11

Media Info

• Features: Photos;
• Pagination: p. 16
• Serial:
  • Railway Age
  • Volume: 181
  • Issue Number: 15
  • Publisher: Simmons-Boardman Publishing Corporation
  • ISSN: 0033-8826
  • Serial URL: http://www.railwayage.com

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Automatic car identification; Centralized traffic control; Control systems; Data communications; Dispatching; Highway traffic control; Information processing; Management information systems; Microwaves; Minicomputers; Telecommunications; Telephone equipment
• Old TRIS Terms: Train ii
• Subject Areas: Operations and Traffic Management; Railroads;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00319930
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Nov 29 1980 12:00AM