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History of COMTRAC: Development of the Innovative Traffic-Control System for Shinkansen

2015; Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers; Volume: 38; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1109/mahc.2015.47

1934-1547

Katsuji Akita, Yutaka Hasegawa,

Mobile Agent-Based Network Management

First introduced together with the extension of Tokaido-Shinkansen railway in 1972, the COMTRAC large-scale command-and-control system efficiently controls the train's high-speed, high-frequency, high-diversity operations. This article introduces COMTRAC's technological features and gives an overview of its 50-year history, including the early days of R&D and the subsequent system development and improvements.