• The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers B
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• v.55 no.9
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• pp.485-490
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• 2006

According to the computerization of railway signaling systems, the interface link between the signaling systems has been replaced by the digital communication channel. At the same time, the importance of the communication link is more pronounced than before. In this paper, new Network-based protocol between railway signaling and SCADA (Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition system) has designed and the overview of designed protocol is briefly represented. And also this paper addresses analysis of newly designed train control systems. Fame error rates of the data transmissions are calculated and compared for the two cases that the CTC (Centralized Traffic Control)/SCADA has an extra data transmission error control (CRC16) besides the inherent error control of the Ethernet and that the CTC/SCADA has no extra data transmission error control. With simulation results it has been verified that the additional error control code contributes to lowering the frame error rate. It will be expected to increase the safety, reliability and efficiency of maintenance of the signaling systems by using the designed protocol for railway signaling system.

• The Transactions of The Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers
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• v.66 no.5
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• pp.877-884
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• 2017

A method of common earth, which is proposed by French Railway(SNCF) and is applied to high speed railway, minimizes the effect of the traction return current from tracks so that trackside electric devices can be protected and operation and maintenance staffs are kept out from injury in an electric railway environment. According to it, all the new domestic electric railway lines are replaced from existing individual earth method to the common earth method. In this paper, we analyze the correlation between common earth method and traction return current to prove whether the common earth has surely contributed to minimize the effect of the traction return current. The analysis was done based on the measurement of the traction return current at the domestic high speed railway line.

• Proceedings of the KSR Conference
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• 2007.05a
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• pp.262-265
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• 2007

This paper is about the study on the failure mode identification of railway signaling embedded system thru which quantitative reliability and safety can be compared reciprocally. Frequency of each failure mode makes possible to compare the reliability of each system and frequency of dangerous failure is used as the measurement standards for system safety. Therefore, this paper provides both reliability-related failure mode and safety-related failure mode by modeling the railway signaling embedded system.

• Proceedings of the KSR Conference
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• 1999.05a
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• pp.299-306
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• 1999

The ${\mu}$-processor based-controlled system is widely used in railway signaling system. The railway signaling systems are highly required safety and reliability. It is necessary to have a fault-tolerant and fail safe concept in ${\mu}$-processor based railway signaling system. In this paper, several architectures and circuits of fault-tolerant computer system is reviewed. The basic concept of the fault-tolerant computer system will be adapted total self checking, strong fail safe, fault display circuit, logic testing circuit and system switching concepts.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2008.10c
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• pp.205-207
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• 2008

Much signaling equipments are installed along railway tracks, and these are working in cooperation with each other, referring to other signaling equipment status. Existing railway signaling system uses signal cables to transmit this information. This system requires high cost for construction and have the problems like many faults from mistakes in cable connection, etc To solve these problems, JREast Inc. has developed a new signaling system based on network technology, utilizing Ethernet-Passive Optical Network(E-PON). In this paper, we review the system proposed by JREast Inc. and field test results performed on railway.

• Proceedings of the KSR Conference
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• 2004.06a
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• pp.1495-1500
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• 2004

The interface link for railway signaling systems is generally point-to-point communication scheme, but there have been several efforts to apply the network technology to these interface link in overseas country. However general Ethernet scheme has several drawbacks, so this scheme cannot meet the very high reliability, safety and real-time properties. To overcome these drawbacks, there have been studies reduction and modeling of data collision probability for this ethernet at the industrial and academic world. Therefore, in this paper we analyzed describe a interface trend using network technology between railway signaling equipments and will describe a major technology and framework of a network for railway signaling system.

• Proceedings of the KSR Conference
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• 2004.06a
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• pp.1259-1265
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• 2004

Railway is an important transportation tool for nation's industrial development and public daily life. These days the concern about railway has remarkably been rising due to the April 2004 opening of KTX, Korea High Speed Rail, together with Trans-Continental Railways linking North Korea, China, Russia, through European countries. In the meantime, the issues of train safety and efficiency, arising from the different on-board signaling systems installed on different kinds of trains, have been raised incessantly. In this paper CTCS(Continental Train Control System) is suggested, which can accommodate such various signaling functions as ATP, ATC, ATS, etc. into one single type of on-board signaling system and operate without changing ground signaling systems on the junctions of the Trans-Continental Railways. The development of this CTCS would cause speed-up of exiting lines and possession of railway core solutions for establishing Northeast Asia logistics center bases, which could be an important cornerstone for domestic railway improvements and Korea's role of Northeast Hub.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2001.04a
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• pp.378-380
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• 2001

The railway signaling system consists of computerized vital devices. Therefor it is important to validate the required functions of developed signaling system. To verify the condition and functions of signaling functions, the plentiful laboratory test is required. To achieve this, the emulation S/W for signaling test-bench is needed. The object-oriented concept for trackside signaling equipments emulation is described in this paper.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2008.06a
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• pp.1145-1146
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• 2008

Failures of equipments are linked directly to extensive damages of human lives or financial losses from the increasing uses of railway signaling equipments utilizing computers. Then safety organizations have to establish for guaranteeing safety during the system life-cycle. In this paper, we examine the relationship between railway signaling standards and other safety standards for safety meaning establishment.

• The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers P
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• v.58 no.2
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• pp.108-115
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• 2009

Recent advances in computer technology have brought more dependence on software to train control systems. Hence, the safety assurance of the vital software running on the railway system is very critical task and yet, not many works have been done. While much efforts have been reported to improve electronic hardware's safety, not so much systematic approaches to evaluate software's safety, especially for the vital software running on board train controllers. In this paper, we have developed the static software testing tool for railway signaling, especially Fagan Inspection module and checklists supporting module. This static testing tool for railway signaling can be utilized at the assessment phase, and also usefully at the software development stage also. It is anticipated that it will be greatly helpful for the evaluation on the software for railway signalling system.