Embedded ICT for Railway Safety

52nd Annual International Scientific Conference of Riga Technical University. Section of Power and Electrical Engineering: Abstract Book and Electronic Proceedings 2011
Pēteris Apse-Apsītis, Leonīds Ribickis, Anatolijs Ļevčenkovs, Mihails Gorobecs

Railway safety is important task and start with steam locomotive development beginning. Today EU-Artemis Joint Undertaking has placed several activities to achieve improvements in this field. Main goal is to improve safety via embedded ICT. Some problems or difficulties are caused by fact that today one of the oldest mechanical transport industries still are one of the most conservative industries. This article takes a look how to improve railway safety under current ICT technologies offer. Massive safety improvements can take place only in case if solutions will acquire low level investments.

Keywords
safety, embedded ICI, railway
Hyperlink
http://alephfiles.rtu.lv/kolekcija/2011_Embedded_full.pdf

Apse-Apsītis, P., Ribickis, L., Ļevčenkovs, A., Gorobecs, M. Embedded ICT for Railway Safety. In: 52nd Annual International Scientific Conference of Riga Technical University. Section of Power and Electrical Engineering: Abstract Book and Electronic Proceedings, Latvia, Rīga, 1-31 October, 2011. Riga: RTU Publishing House, 2011, pp.78-79. ISBN 9789934102103.

Publication language
English (en)