Decision-making strategies in fixed-block railway signaling systems: A discrete event systems approach

Mustafa Seçkin Durmuş, Shigemasa Takai*, Mehmet Turan Söylemez

*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

Ensuring the system safety at all times is most important in railway systems where small failures may result in a large number of casualties and property loss. Although there are various design methods, safety precautions, and recommendations of the railway-related safety standards, sometimes the occurrence of accidents cannot be prevented. In this paper, according to the recommendations of the railway-related safety standards, an interlocking system architecture, which consists of two controllers and a coordinator, for a fixed-block railway signaling system is studied. Based on the Petri net models of railway field components, decision-making strategies including fault diagnosis are presented.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)186-194
Number of pages9
JournalIEEJ Transactions on Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Volume10
Issue number2
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1 Mar 2015

Bibliographical note

Publisher Copyright:
© 2014 Institute of Electrical Engineers of Japan.

Funding

This work was supported by JSPS RONPAKU (Ph.D. dissertation) Program and the Okawa Foundation for Information and Telecommunications.

FundersFunder number
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
Okawa Foundation for Information and Telecommunications

    Keywords

    • Fault diagnosis
    • Fixed-block railway signaling systems
    • Petri nets
    • Safety-related standards

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