TRAIN CONTROL SYSTEM

• Main Authors: MATSUDA KAZUYUKI, UCHIDA TOSHIHIRO, TAKAOKA YOSUKE
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 27.06.2013
• Subjects: ELECTRIC EQUIPMENT OR PROPULSION OF ELECTRICALLY-PROPELLEDVEHICLES; ELECTRODYNAMIC BRAKE SYSTEMS FOR VEHICLES, IN GENERAL; ENSURING THE SAFETY OF RAILWAY TRAFFIC; GUIDING RAILWAY TRAFFIC; MAGNETIC SUSPENSION OR LEVITATION FOR VEHICLES; PERFORMING OPERATIONS; RAILWAYS; TRANSPORTING; VEHICLES IN GENERAL

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a train control system which can easily perform rewriting work of rail track data and reduce facility cost by reducing a hardware mounting the rail track data.SOLUTION: The train control system includes: a train track database 9 which is installed in a center device 8 and stores section train track data for each section having divided a rail track 1 of a train 2; a ground device 6 which is installed near a boundary of respective sections and to which the section rail track data corresponding to the section is transmitted from the rail track database 9; a rail track storage part which is mounted to the train 2 and which stores the section rail track data transmitted from the ground device 6 via an on-vehicle wireless device and a ground wireless device 7; and an on-vehicle device which performs travel control of the train 2 based on the section train track data stored in the train track data.