ANALYTICAL STUDY OF THE COMPUTER AIDED CONTROL SYSTEM FOR THE SHINKANSEN: AN ACTUAL BEHAVIOR

A computer-aided Traffic Control System (COMTRAC) is adopted with a view to operating the great many trains on the Shinkansen smoothly, precisely and in great safety. A study was carried out to analyze and assess this complex, man-machine system by a new method named CDPA (Man-Machine Communication & Decision-making Process Analysis Diagram), which the authors have devised, and OSD (Operational Sequence diagram). As a result of the study, the behavior of the system was divided into several groups by the amount of related information. The study has also revealed that the limited value of the communicating capacity could be found out by analyzing the amount of information, given and received during the time of train diagram confusion.

• Supplemental Notes:
  • Proc of 16th IEEE Conference Decis Control Incl Symp Adapt Processes and a Special Symposium on Fuzzy Set Theory and Appl, New Orleans, Louisiana, December 7-9. 1977.
• Corporate Authors:

  Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

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• Authors:
  • Iiyama, Y
  • Yamauchi, K
  • Yanagawa, K
• Publication Date: 1977

Media Info

• Pagination: 6 p.

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Automatic control; Centralized traffic control; Data communications; Fuzzy sets; High speed rail; Information processing; Operations research; Railroads; Traffic control; Traffic delays; Train operations
• Identifier Terms: Nihon kokuyu tetsudo; Shinkansen
• Uncontrolled Terms: Train delays
• Old TRIS Terms: Automatic control systems
• Subject Areas: Data and Information Technology; Operations and Traffic Management; Railroads;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00178487
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Engineering Index
• Report/Paper Numbers: 77CH1269-OCS Conf Paper
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Jul 19 1978 12:00AM