Author(s)

N. Rowden

Abstract

The design of a modern railway control and supervisory system which uses standard off-the-shelf components is described. Particular emphasis is given to the aspects concerning safety, availability and ease of use, describing the unique solutions the designers utilised in satisfying the system requirements. Abbreviations CTC centralised traffic control LAN local area network MM I man/machine interface OSF Open System Foundation 1 Introduction The conlrol and supervision of u wil\ay netwoik .equires the tcquisilion and pio\isii,n of all data relating to the state of the tivck\ within the area of respon- sibility. T(. accomplish this. CTC (centralised tralhc control) computers store and pmciss information, \hich \ recei

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